Giants in the Earth : A Saga of the Prairie.

Rolvaag, Ole Edvart.

ISBN 10: 0060931930 / ISBN 13: 9780060931933

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999

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Softcover, minor wear, remainder mark to bottom text block, solid binding, a nice reading copy!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Giants in the Earth : A Saga of the Prairie.
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060931930
• ISBN 13: 9780060931933
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very good
• Weight: 18 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

“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 Rĝlvaag’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. Rĝlvaag 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

About the Author

O. E. Rölvaag was born in 1876. His books include Peder Victorious and Their Fathers' God. He died in 1931.