The Women at the Pump (Sun and Moon Classics)
Contributors: Oliver Stallybrass (Translator); Gunnvor Stallybrass (Translator)
Publisher: Sun and Moon Press
Published: April 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781557132444
Subjects: Norwegian Novel And Short Story; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General
Description: Joining previous Hamsun novels published by Sun & Moon Press (Victoria and Wayfarers), The Women at the Pump, originally published in Norway in 1920, reveals the narrative power of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist.

The women at the pump in Hamsun's small Norwegian coastal town are seldom short of something to talk about: scandals of adultery and illegitimate children, class tensions and hostility, religious disputes, and a mail robbery involving some of the town's most significant figures. All serve as a backdrop to the activities of Oliver Andersen and his large family he and his wife contrive to raise despite the growing suspicions that a mysterious accident at sea deprived him of more than a leg.