Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, "The Birds" - it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages - Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Tarjei Vesaas (Author)
Tarjei Vesaas died at the age of 72 in the same small village where
he was born- Vinje in Telemark, an isolated mountainous district of
southern Norway. He wrote more than 25 novels and was nominated 30
times for the Nobel Prize.
The Birds has a freshness that can only be due to its timeless
subject matter... From the first page, this novel grips us with an
acutely sensitive rendition of a mentally handicapped man's inner
world
*Kirkus Review*
A masterpiece
*Literary Review*
A spare, icily humane story... The character of Mattis, absurd and
boastful, but also sweet, pathetic and even funny, is shown with
great insight. The translation conveys successfully a concentration
of style and feeling that seems to be Vesaas' characteristic mark
as a novelist
*Sunday Times*
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