From the Publisher
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“Knut Hamsun’s writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review
“The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoyevsky . . . Lyngstad’s translation restores to the English-speaking reader one of the cold summits in modern prose literature.” —George Steiner
Herald
Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day
Rebecca West
Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, a complete omniscience on human nature
London Review of Books
Hunger was published in 1890 and its power has not faded
Time Out
One of the most disturbing novels in existence
Observer
Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky
Duncan McClean
Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most important novels of the modern age. At last it has found a translator capable of doing justice to its immense power and complexity: Lyngstad's deserves to become the standard English version
Times Literary Supplement
An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version
