The novel by the famous Danish writer became a bestseller almost half a century after it was written. It was adapted into a dramatic film epic by Sydney Pollack with the participation of the best Hollywood actors (1985), which received seven Oscars. An extraordinary ability to deeply penetrate into the essence of everything that happens, true mercy and love for the world are the distinctive features of this novel about life on a coffee plantation in Kenya, about death and love. Translation by M. Kovaleva. Ed. "Limbus Press", St. Petersburg, 1997.