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Spring Night (Peter Owen modern classics) Book

Sixteen-year-old Sissel and her young brother Olaf have been left minding their parents' farm for the night. But when a strange family descends on them, lost, in a broken-down car, the children have to cope alone.Grete, who is in labour...Read More

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    This novel relates the events that overtake a girl and her young brother when they are left unaccompanied for the night on their parents farm. They have to cope alone...

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    Vesaas conjures brilliantly from the somber north.""-TLS. Vesaas (1897-1970), shortlisted for the Nobel Prize on a number of occasions, was one of Norway's greatest modern writers. In this 1954 novel sixteen-year old Sissel and her young brother Olaf have been left minding their parents' farm for the night. But when a strange family descends upon them, lost, in a broken-down car, the children have to cope alone. Grete, who is in labor, is accompanied by her distraught husband, childish father-in-law, and a mysterious girl, Gudrun, who seems to have stepped right out of one of Oalf's dreams. Vesaas's novel is a beautifully rendered portrait of adolescent experience. But by the end of the spring night there has been not only a birth but a death in the house, and adolescence has vanished forever.

  • 072061189X
  • 9780720611892
  • Tarjei Vesaas
  • 25 February 2004
  • Peter Owen Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 168
  • New edition
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