![]() ![]() ![]() During those months in Copenhagen, I occasionally walked into one of the antiquarian bookstores that could be found all over the city’s Latin Quarter. ![]() Hamsun is not so well known in America-perhaps the curse of a minor language-but his influence is certainly felt Isaac Bashevis Singer argued that “the whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun, just as Russian literature in the nineteenth century ‘came out of Gogol’s greatcoat.’ ” In Scandinavia, though, Hamsun meant trouble. I lived for a time in Copenhagen, trying to learn Danish, and that’s when I discovered the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, whose career was one of the strangest of the last century. ![]()
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Famous for his International Cricket achievements (1961 1972) as South Africa’s Premier Fast Bowler and as the father of the former South African Captain, Shaun Pollock. In summary, this is a religious story about Easter but the packaging and presentation is likely to be very off-putting to the eventual consumer, the children themselves. I couldn't get my 8-year-old to read this even with a significant bribe. Worse, the cover has a photo of a child writing, one of the immortal banes of elementary school. It's 68 pages of large text and not a single illustration of any sort. The only other real thing of note is that for a children's book it is amazingly devoid of pictures. As religious texts go it's minimally preachy though it does give the usual admonishments of "putting God first" and all that. All this, I suspect, is engaging enough for small children. The professor is lucky enough to have a time machine so he can take the children back in time to see the situation first hand. 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