Gunnar's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Undset, Sigrid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014118020X ISBN 13: 9780141180205

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

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Book by Undset Sigrid

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By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"A better told story of its kind would be difficult to imagine, for Sigrid Undset has retained the directness and concise power of the old Norse and Icelandic sagas. . . . Beautifully told; already so early in her career [Undset] had learned the true meaning of form and proportion, pace and suspense." --The New York Times

Reseña del editor:

Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, this is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is casually raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor, until an unrelenting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness. More than a historical romance, Gunnar's Daughter depicts characters driven by passion and vengefulness, themes as familiar in Undset's own time - and in ours - as they were in the Saga Age.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 014118020X
• ISBN 13: 9780141180205
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Herausgeber: Harbison Sherrill