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Olav Audunsson - II. Providence (Paperback)
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Olav Audunsson - II. Providence (Paperback)
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The second volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic of
medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset's fluid, natural style in
a new English translation, the first in nearly a century As Norway
moves into the fourteenth century, the kingdom continues to be
racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas that serve
as the backdrop for Sigrid Undset's masterful story about Olav
Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter. Betrothed as children and
raised as foster siblings, their unbridled love for each other sets
in motion a series of dire events-with a legacy of betrayal,
murder, and disgrace that will echo for generations. In Providence,
the second of Olav Audunsson's four volumes, Olav settles in at his
ancestral estate of Hestviken and soon brings Ingunn home as his
wife. Both hope to put their troubles behind them as they start a
new life together, but the crimes and shameful secrets of the past
have a long reach and a tenacious hold. The consequences of sin,
suspicion, and familial obligations may prove a greater threat to
the pair's happiness than even their long years of separation. Set
in a time when royalty and religion vie for power, and bloodlines
and loyalties are effectively law, Providence summons a powerful
picture of Northern life in the medieval era, as the Swedish
Academy noted in awarding Undset the Nobel Prize. Conveying both
the intimate drama of Olav and Ingunn's marriage and the epic sweep
of their story, it is at once a moving and vivid recreation of a
vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and
retribution. As with her classic Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid
Undset immersed herself in legal, religious, and historical
writings to create in Olav Audunsson an astoundingly authentic and
compelling portrait of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in
her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter, Tiina Nunnally does full
justice to Undset's fluid prose. Undset's writing style is by turns
straightforward and delicately lyrical, conveying the natural
world, the complex culture, and the fraught emotional territory
against which Olav's story inexorably unfolds.
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