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Mysteries by Knut Hamsun again deals with a stranger arrived out of nowhere in a small coastal town. It has the same premise as PAN, Hamsun's novel that I read before. It depicts an eccentric young man, Johan Nilsen Nagel, who developed unlikely friendships with pariahs of the town (the Midget and the spinster). Nagel constructed stories around himself filled with allusions and insinuations and when he fallen in love with the most beloved girl in the town, love is like a negative force that crea
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Jan 08, 2010
Erica
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Alyson Zikmund
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