Mothwise

"Mothwise" by Knut Hamsun is a novel by the famed Norwegian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The tale contains many comical and caricatured people and events.The main characters are the telegraph operator Ove Rolandsen and Elise Mack, the daughter of the «privileged trader» Mack of Rosengaard. This Mack is referred to as a brother of the privileged trader at Sirilund in Hamsun's novel Pan.