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200 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1954
’They went across the yard side by side. And chanced to hold each other’s hand. Firm, lonely hands that suddenly had something strange to hold. The meadow still lay there playing with its veil of mist and the pale light was on the road and the tress and on every check. This is was, amid a fragrance from Gudrun.’

"No one chooses what comes tumbling down over his head." (155)I thought I'd read another work by Tarjei Vesaas. Spring Nights is a strange novel—like an adolescent dream, or a dream of adolescence. It has the hopes, fears, desires, anxieties, miseries, longings, and touchinesses that we all have or can remember having on warm, idle spring nights, when anything can happen. The novel isn't quite as good as, say, The Birds, but it has its own almost eerie fascination and insists that it could not have been written by anyone other than Vesaas.
"Where had that smile come from? Olaf learned a little about the efforts that must sometimes be made. If one is to hold out." (135)