“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”

— Knut Hamsun, book Hunger

Part One - p.3 (Book opening line) [Page numbers per the 2016 Canongate Books Ltd. paperback edition (which incorporates the 1996 Sverre Lyngstad translation into English).]
Novels, Hunger (1890)

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Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859–1952

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