The Birds

Name: The Birds
Author: Tarjei Vesaas

by Tarjei Vesaas

Allegorical novel about communication and connection between isolated human souls

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Tarjei Vesaas

Norwegian author who wrote in the Nynorsk form of Norwegian and produced some of the most powerful modernist fiction in Scandinavian literature. The Ice Palace and The Birds are lyrical masterpieces of existential intensity.

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