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“The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.”–The Nation
O. E. Rolvaag’s classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains–a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America
Based in part on Ole Edvart R lvaag’s own recollections as well of those of his wife’s family who were immigrant homesteaders, Giants in the Earth is the riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. R lvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairie–blizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shock–as well as their simple joys, culminating in a magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American dream.
“A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterious distances and its capacity for evil, is painted with alternating beauty and grimness.” —The Atlantic
Author: OLE Edvart Rolvaag
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 8/4/1999
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03 lbs
Size: 8.04″ H x 5.36″ L x 1.32″ W
ISBN: 9780060931933
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