Lucky Per: Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg

A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"— but is only newly available in English.

Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that "you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast . . . and capture and b...