# The Ring is Closed

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- Authors: [Knut Hamsun](https://www.bookquiver.com/hamsun-knut)
- Publisher: Souvenir Press
- ISBN: 978-02-8563-868-6
- Pages: 336
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Featuring an iconoclastic hero who refuses to accept the standards of his society, this novelis one of the Nobel Prizewinner s greatest works. The only son of a miserly lighthouse-keeper and an alcoholic mother, Abel grows up in a remote Norwegian village then travels around the United States. Upon returning from America as a young man, Abel falls in love with his longtime acquaintance Olga, the pharmacist s daughter. Haunted by the secrets of his travels, however, Abel determines to live on the barest of necessities and pursue a life without desire or ambition. Available in the United States for the first time since the 1930s, this controversial novel features themes that are strikingly contemporary."