Growth of the soil
/ Knut Hamsun ; translated with explanatory and textual notes by Sverre Lyngstad ; introduction by Brad Leithauser
- New York : Penguin Books , 2007.
- xx, 328 p. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
Includes bibliographical references.
In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian backcountry, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land.