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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 Nunnallyβs 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 NikulaussΓΈn, 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 Norwayβs most beloved authorβone of the twentieth centuryβs most prodigious and engaged literary mindsβand, in Nunnallyβs exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - December 12, 2006
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