"Mad Norwegian." Nobel Prize Laureate. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A genius not only of Scandinavian, but also of world literature. His fate was difficult and ambiguous. During his lifetime, he had the opportunity to experience both rapid fame, and complete oblivion, and a new return to glory - this time not national, but “elite”. However, no literary fashion can cast a shadow on the power of true writing talent - a talent of the level that Knut Hamsun possessed. The third novel in Knut Hamsun's trilogy about Augustus - a dreamer, a tramp and an adventurer. August is getting old - he is already over sixty. But he still has the unique gift of interfering in human destinies, infecting those around him with his thirst for enrichment - and becoming either a demon-tempter collecting the souls of townspeople and peasants, or, on the contrary, an angel testing their hearts for strength...