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Synopsis
The Cross (1922) finds Kristin returning with her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jorundgaard. As the boys grow older, Kristin is increasingly worried about their prospects, and she and Erlend become estranged. The most devastating and emotional volume in the trilogy, The Cross chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear, and how she finds the strength to endure them. This final chapter in her story emphasized the medieval belief that the spiritual world has primacy over the material one, a belief with which Undset herself concurred but found lacking in most of her own contemporaries.
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Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understanding and seriously than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. Commonweal No other novelist has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness. New York Herald Tribune"
"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understanding and seriously...than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov." --Commonweal"No other novelist has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness." --New York Herald Tribune
About the Author
Sigrid Undset is a major figure in early twentieth-century literature. A Norwegian born in Denmark in 1881, she worked with the Norwegian underground during the Second World War, fled to Sweden in 1940, and later came to the United States. She is the author of many works of fiction as well as several books for young readers and a number of nonfiction titles. Her novels encompass a variety of settings and time periods, ranging from medieval romances such as the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy--generally considered to be her masterwork--and The Master of Hestviken tetralogy to modern novels such as The Winding Road, Ida Elisabeth, and The Faithful Wife. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Sigrid Undset died in 1949.
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