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The Greenlanders

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  • Mar 12, 1988
  • #HistoricalFiction
Jane Smiley
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Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlandersis an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Eur... Show More

Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlandersis an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most far-flung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlandersis the story of one family–proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful 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. Jane Smiley takes us into this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us.

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Number of Pages: 584

ISBN: 1400095468

ISBN-13: 9781400095469

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Donovan Borger @donovan_borger · Sep 6, 2022
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Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders is just shy at 582 pages, but I would very much recommend it.
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