Giants in the Earth
A Saga of the Prairie
Ole Edvart Rolvaag
- 560 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
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Giants in the Earth
A Saga of the Prairie
Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Ă propos de ce livre
"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America."â The Nation
O. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plainsâa vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America
Based in part on Ole Edvart RĂžlvaag'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. RĂžlvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairieâblizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shockâas 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." â The Atlantic