It would be very strange were this book not to assure Cora Sandel’s reputation outside Norway. For she is one of the genuine few’, said a Norwegian newspaper on the release of Alberta and Jacob in 1926. Hailed as a masterpiece on its British publication in 1962, this Modern Classic reissue should
The Boat in the Evening is the last book by the acclaimed Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas. On its publication in Scandinavia it was quickly acclaimed as the culmination of Vesaas’s work, and placed its author for the third time among the finalists for the Nobel Prize. A crane colony arrives at its
