The Greenlanders - Softcover

Smiley, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804104530 ISBN 13: 9780804104531

Verlag: Ivy Books,U.S., 1989

Inhaltsangabe

In fourteenth-century Greeland, a small Norse settlement struggles for survival through increasingly harsh winters, famine, witchcraft, and a tragic feud between the family of Asgeir Gunnarsson and one of his neighbors

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y compelling...fsacinating....Sweeps the reader along...Jane Smiley is a true storyteller."
THE WASHINGTON POST
A magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland, here is a rich and fascinating detail about the day-to-day lives--the joys and innumerble hardships--of a remarkable people. It is also the compelling story of one family--the proud land-owner Asgeir Gunnarsson, his daughter Margret, whose willfull independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile, and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Echoing the simple power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings a remote civilization to life--and shows how it was very like our own.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ivy Books,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804104530
• ISBN 13: 9780804104531
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 582
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar