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Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Kristin LavransdatterThe Nobel-laureate author tells the life story of a passionate and headstrong woman in the 14th century. She paints a richly detailed backdrop of day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin USA
- Published: 20 July 2006
- Format: Paperback 1184 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780143039167 ISBN 10: 0143039164
- Sales rank: 40,274
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Full description for Kristin Lavransdatter
In her great historical epic "Kristin Lavransdatter," set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty. As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulauss?n, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty. With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, "Kristin Lavransdatter" is the masterwork of Norway's most beloved author?one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and engaged literary minds?and, in Nunnally's exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.
