Mysteries

Synopsis

The first complete english translation of the nobel prize-winner’s literary masterpiece a penguin classic mysteries is the story of johan nilsen nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small norwegian town one summer—and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the age, brings comfort to the “insulted and injured, ” and gains the love of two women suggestive of the biblical mary and martha.