Sigrid Undset, Author, Tim Page, Editor, Tina Nunnally, Translator , trans. from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally and Naomi Walford. Steerforth $30 (500p) ISBN 978-1-58642-021-5
Norwegian writer Undset (1882–1949) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 for her epic medieval trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter, which has remained an international classic since its publication. Nevertheless, her earlier work has long...
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Sigrid Undset, trans. from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally. Univ. of Minnesota, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1048-8
This sweeping epic of 13th-century Norway by Nobel winner Undset (1882–1949), the first in a tetralogy, sets a love story against the country’s upheaval. The bonds of kinship supersede the laws of church and state in Undset’s story, which begins...
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Sigrid Undset, trans. from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally. Univ. of Minnesota Press, $17.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1334-2
The engrossing third volume of Nobel Prize winner Undset’s tetralogy of medieval Norway concludes the story of Norwegian chieftain Olav Audunssøn. Undset opens with the arrival of two men who invite Olav to captain their boat to England. Olav is...
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