| The Boat in the Evening New and Volume Edition Contributor(s): Vesaas, Tarjei (Author), Rokkan, Elizabeth (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0720611989 ISBN-13: 9780720611984 Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970), one of Norway's most important writers, was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize a number of times. This 1968 novel, his last one, uses a cinematic impressionism as it voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity. A colony of cranes arrive at their mating ground to play out a delicate ritual drama; a boy and his father clear a road together in a pitiless snowstorm; a drowning man floats down river towards rescue. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, it is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A Peter Owen Modern Classic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004271362 |
| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 4.98" W x 7.24" (0.32 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life--of landscape and people. |