Benoni

Benoni, a postman in a northern town, is hopelessly in love with Rosa. He is hired by the wealthy merchant Mack and sent to fish off the Lofoten Islands – eventually becoming almost his right-hand man. To secure Benoni's loyalty, the powerful Mack persuades his goddaughter Rosa to become engaged to him. Benoni is overjoyed, but then Rosa's long-lost fiancé Nikolai reappears – disaster is imminent. Beautiful and simultaneously hilarious, with breathtaking descriptions of nature, the nights that never grow dark, the wild storms, and the Lofoten fishing, where men spend months at sea. "My favorite book!" says Gabriele Haefs. Is there more needed to promote this classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun, to whom Gabriele Haefs has restored its original brilliance with her new translation?.