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Synopsis
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after World War II ended in 1945. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a modernist trilogy about life in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. She took a one-year secretarial course and got a job as secretary with an engineering company. Sigrid was no more than 16 years old when she made her first hesitant attempt at writing a novel set in the Nordic Middle Ages. At the age of 25, Sigrid Undset made her literary debut with a short, realistic novel set against a contemporary background. During the years up to 1919, Undset published a number of novels set in contemporary Kristiania. This realistic period culminated in the novels Jenny in 1911 and Vaaren in 1914. Amongst her other works are Korset (1922) and The Bridal Wreath (1923).
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Review
[Undset] was an uncommonly fine writer of fiction. -- "The New York Times Book Review"
"Jenny"is a stunningly atmospheric yet frank and searching drama about a young woman painter struggling to reconcile her need to make art with her longing for and fear of love. This brooding book can stand with the best of the moderns. -- "Booklist""
"[Undset] was an uncommonly fine writer of fiction."-- The New York Times Book Review
"Jenny is a stunningly atmospheric yet frank and searching drama about a young woman painter struggling to reconcile her need to make art with her longing for and fear of love. This brooding book can stand with the best of the moderns."-- Booklist
About the Author
Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her early novels portrayed modern women "sympathetically but with merciless truthfulness"; her later works, including the internationally bestselling Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, contained "powerful pictures of Northern life in medieval times."
Tiina Nunnally won the 2001 pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for her translation of the Penguin Classics Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. She lives in Seattle.
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- PublisherDodo Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1409923819
- ISBN 13 9781409923817
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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