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Release date is 2013-09-14

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"Markens grøde, Første del" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1917 that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature. It follows Isak, a Norwegian man who settles on a remote patch of land and carves out a farm from the wilderness. As his family grows and civilization encroaches with telegraph lines and mining prospects, Isak must navigate between his agrarian values and the forces of modernity. The story explores humanity's primal connection to the earth against the backdrop of early twentieth-century progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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