Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Soil

Release date is 2025-07-09

Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen

"Maan siunaus : Romaani" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1917. It follows Isak, a Norwegian man who carves out a life from untamed land, building a farm and raising a family in rural isolation. As modernity encroaches through telegraph lines and copper mining, Isak and his wife Inger navigate personal tragedies, including infanticide and imprisonment, while remaining bound to their agrarian existence. The novel explores the tension between primitive simplicity and the relentless march of progress in early twentieth-century Norway. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Helsinki: Kust.Oy Kirja, 1919