I vječno pjevaju šume

I vječno pjevaju šume

Trygve Gulbranssen

Lovers of beautiful books will read this work with pleasure, because it is full of magnificent descriptions of nature, full of music carried by the wind blowing through the forest, and because it is written in an unforced folk language...

And the forests sing forever, Wind from the mountain and No way around are three novels by Trygva Gulbranssen that foreign critics call the "Norwegian trilogy". Each of them forms a whole by itself, and can be read separately. In them, the writer covered life in the Norwegian mountain region, at a time that was accurately marked. He describes in them simple people, who have a lot of similarities with the highlanders of the Dinaric region; these characters are rooted in the land, freedom-loving, well patriarchal, they know the whole scale of human feelings, and above all they are honest, brave, determined and persistent...

Original title
Og bakom synger skogene
Translation
Josip Tabak
Graphics design
Valerija Pavić
Dimensions
19 x 14 cm
Pages
314
Publisher
Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1959.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.

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