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Lucky Per (Hardcover)
Henrik Pontoppidan; Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg; Translated by Naomi Lebowitz
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Discovery Miles 3 630
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Social realism and fairy tale combine in Lucky Per, a bildungsroman
about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and
flees a restricted life in rural Jutland for Denmark's capital
city. Per is a gifted young man who firmly believes that 'you had
to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged
beast ... and capture and bind it'. He falls in with Copenhagen's
Jewish community, and falls for Jakobe Salomon, a wealthy heiress,
who is not only the strongest character in the book but among the
great Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed
with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will both reshape
Denmark's landscape and correct its minor position in the world.
Eventually personal and his career ambitions alike come to grief.
At the heart of Lucky Per lies the question of the relationship of
'luck' to 'happiness' (the Danish word in the title can have both
meanings), a relationship which Per comes to view differently by
the end of his life.
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Krøniker
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R829
Discovery Miles 8 290
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Skyer (Hardcover)
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R877
Discovery Miles 8 770
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Skyer
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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Asgaardsrejen
Henrik Pontoppidan
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Discovery Miles 8 700
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Asgaardsrejen
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R527
Discovery Miles 5 270
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