Pan by Knut Hamsun

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Trade paperback format. Translated by Sverre Lyngstad. The Nobel Prize winner’s lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psycheA Penguin Classic A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway’s northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the strange girl Edvarda comes into his life. Sverre Lyngstad’s superb translation of Hamsun’s 1894 novel restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun’s original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Show more