

Loading... The Fishermen (1928)by Hans Kirk
![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. This 1928 novel is the best-selling Danish book of all time (according to the forward). It is the story of a small group of pious fishermen and their families who uproot themselves from the wild and dangerous open coast of the North Sea to a village on a fjord, with safer fishing grounds. It is a "collective novel" (like Heinessen's Windswept Dawn), in which a group microcosm rather than an individual main character is the focus. In this book, we follow the lives of these insular fishermen as they try to maintain their religion and style of living, yet incorporate themselves into their new town and fishing grounds. Highly recommended. no reviews | add a review
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Der er ingen tvivl om, hvad Hans Kirk tænker om den indremissionske tro. Budskabet virker til at være: Frelsen kommer ikke gennem skriftlære og bønner til en usynlig gud, men af menneskelig omsorg, den reelle næstekærlighed som bogens hovedpersoner har glemt. Og det er egentlig befriende at læse en roman, der ikke skjuler sine budskaber, som mange forfattere ville gøre i dag - måske fordi det bliver gjort så troværdigt og faktisk også respektfuldt over for det samfund, han skildrer. Og fordi det bliver gjort så nuanceret, at jeg har lyst til omgående at læse den forfra for at få det hele med. (