{"product_id":"the-birds-pushkin-press-classics","title":"The Birds (Pushkin Press Classics)","description":"“Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds— it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.” — Karl Ove Knausgaard\n\nThe Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled young man living in a small house in the Norwegian countryside with his sister Hege. Eking out a modest living knitting sweaters, Hege encourages her brother to find work to ease their financial burdens, but his attempts come to nothing.\n\nWhen he finally sets himself up as a ferryman, the only passenger he manages to bring across the lake is a lumberjack, Jørgen. But when Jørgen and Hege become lovers, Mattis finds the safety of his familial life threatened and his jealousy quickly spirals.\n\nIn The Birds, Norway’s most celebrated writer of the twentieth century allows us to rediscover the world. By turns frightening, beautiful, confounding, and full of mystery, it is a world we come to see more vividly through Mattis’s eyes.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1805330810\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1805330810.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Vesaas, Tarjei|Barnes, Michael|Knausgaard, Karl Ove|Støverud, Torbjørn\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516032262202,"sku":"DBV.1805330810.VG","price":13.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1805330810-0.jpg?v=1783714005","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-birds-pushkin-press-classics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}