Lucky Per

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Call Number: Fiction / Pontoppidan, Henrik, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Pontoppidan, Henrik
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Pontoppidan, Henrik	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Pontoppidan, Henrik	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"-- but is only newly available in English. Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that "you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast. and capture and bind it." Per's love interest, a Jewish heiress, is both the strongest character in the book and one of the greatest Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief. At its heart, the story revolves around the question of the relationship of "luck" to "happiness" (the Danish word in the title can have both meanings), a relationship Per comes to see differently by the end of his life"-- Provided by publisher.
"A hardcover edition of the 1904 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan, widely considered "the great Danish novel," but not available in English until recently. In a translation by Naomi Lebowitz, with a new introduction by novelist Garth Risk Hallberg, bibliography, and chronology"-- Provided by publisher.

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