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Penguin
September 2005
On Sale: September 27, 2005
1168 pages
ISBN: 0143039164
EAN: 9780143039167
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Literature and Fiction
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
Nikulaussøn, 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.
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