Kristin Lavransdatter : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
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From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
A landmark among historical novels, Kristin Lavransdatter is part of the body of work that won Sigrid Undset the Nobel Prize for 1928. This trilogy of more than one thousand pages follows its title character through her life in fourteenth-century Scandinavia. It is a novel full of big and dramatic happenings: romantic intrigues, political schemes, and spiritual debates. It is also a novel about one woman's life. Sigrid Undset makes us understand Kristin's love for her sons and husband, the feeling of milk in her breasts, and the hard work of living in the fourteenth century. As does any good historical novel, Kristin Lavransdatter immerses us in its time through rich details concerning dress and manners as well as social and historical events. The multitude of character names is confusing at first, but if you stick with it, Sigrid Undset will give you a first-hand experience of another world. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
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PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize citation
Tiina Nunnally has returned a masterpiece of Scandinavian literature to the English bookshelf
Kristin Lavransdatter : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio),Sigrid Undset,Tiina Nunnally,Brad Leithauser,Penguin Classics,0143039164,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Norwegian Novel And Short Story,Fiction / Literary
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