Knut Hamsun · 2008
A semi-autobiographical novel depicting an impoverished writer struggling to survive in Christiania.
Yann Martel was transported by the book and admires its searingly subjective nature.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“Knut Hamsen, who was a Norwegian writer, he wrote a book called Hunger, and it's about a homeless man in Christiania, which was the old name for Oslo.”
Why: He was transported by the book and admires its searingly subjective nature.
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