Chapter the Last
Knut Hamsun
January 1, 2025
ISBN 9798218346294 / Paperback / 426 pages / $19.99

From Nobel Prize–winning author Knut Hamsun comes Chapter the Last, a dark and mesmerizing portrait of the human mind. Long unavailable in English, this new Tough Poets Press edition revives Arthur G. Chater's rare 1929 translation of Hamsun's 1923 masterpiece Det Siste Kapitel. This is a must-have for lovers of modernist fiction, literary rediscoveries, and timeless storytelling.

"Another powerful novel from 'the giant of the North.'"
— Percy Hutchinson, The New York Times, Sept. 22, 1929

"The least chapter in this last book of his puts to shame almost all contemporary American writing."
— Clifton P. Fadiman, The New Hampshire, Jan. 30, 1930

"Norwegian humor and pessimism lend distinction to this bleak novel."
— TIME Magazine, Nov. 25, 1929