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I enjoyed this story of homesteaders in Norway. Isak walks into the wilderness and starts a small homestead. Then a woman named Inger walks through the area and joins him. They continue to work to expand their farm, raise livestock, and begin a family. Over the years they face many difficulties, but things always seem to work out for their good in the long run. It‘s a calm and steady story of hard work.

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I listened to Hamsun‘s book Hunger last year and did not enjoy it all, so I was nervous about starting this one. I‘m almost a third of the way through and appreciating it so much more. I am continually expecting something horrible to happen, but so far even when bad things happen they seem to work themselves out fairly well.

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I‘m quite enjoying this tale of Norwegian homesteaders. Possibly my first translation from Norwegian. #1001books

Finished with 11 hr 50 min for #20in4 this month. It sure is fun to keep trying for 20 hours! �
Thanks, @Andrew65

A quality Norwegian family saga, well told. Incidents that would be the height of despair in a Thomas Hardy novel are just a part of life and endured with a stiff upper lip.

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The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came.

*beginning*