Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smileyâ€™s ,The Greenlanders, ,is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europeâ€™s most far-flung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, ,The Greenlanders, ,is the story of one familyâ€“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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The Greenlanders