"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America." — The Nation
Ole Edvart Rølvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel.
Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on Rølvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife’s family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land.
Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.The NationO. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plainsa vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of AmericaBased in part on Ole Edvart Rolvaags own recollections as well of those of his wifes 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. Rolvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairieblizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shockas 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 "The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America."--Publisher's marketing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780060931933
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