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Skyer (Hardcover)
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R811
Discovery Miles 8 110
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Krøniker
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R774
Discovery Miles 7 740
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Asgaardsrejen
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R808
Discovery Miles 8 080
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Skyer
Henrik Pontoppidan
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R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
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Lucky Per (Hardcover)
Henrik Pontoppidan; Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg; Translated by Naomi Lebowitz
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R418
R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
Save R69 (17%)
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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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