The Birds

The Birds - Paperback

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The Birds - Paperback

The Birds - Paperback

by Tarjei Vesaas
$17.95
$17.95

Book Overview

"Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds-- it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages." -- Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled young man living in a small house in the Norwegian countryside with his sister Hege. Eking out a modest living knitting sweaters, Hege encourages her brother to find work to ease their financial burdens, but his attempts come to nothing.

When he finally sets himself up as a ferryman, the only passenger he manages to bring across the lake is a lumberjack, J rgen. But when J rgen and Hege become lovers, Mattis finds the safety of his familial life threatened and his jealousy quickly spirals.

In The Birds, Norway's most celebrated writer of the twentieth century allows us to rediscover the world. By turns frightening, beautiful, confounding, and full of mystery, it is a world we come to see more vividly through Mattis's eyes.
ISBN9781805330813
Author Tarjei Vesaas
PublisherPushkin Press Classics
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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