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- Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.- --Slate

The turbulent historical masterpiece of Norway's literary master
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this...

Sigrid Undsets frühe Erzählung Das glückliche Alter erschienen 1908. Es ist die Geschichte von einigen jungen Frauen, die mit Anfang Zwanzig also in diesem »glücklichen Alter«, auf der Suche sind: nach sich selbst, nach dem Leben, nach dem Mann ihres Lebens, nach Reichtum und Glück. Ein Erzählung vom Anfang des Jahrhunderts, die jung geblieben ist in der Schilderung von Aufbruch, Ausbruch, durch den unvoreingenommenen Blick auf die Widersprüche von Sehnsucht und Realität.

Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life--her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith--profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the...

Happy Times in Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undset's own blissful home life before her nation fell to the Nazi occupation. Captured here is the excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, and summer in the idyllic mountains, as well as the chaotic adventure of raising two energetic boys. With vivid detail and illuminating descriptions of the landscape, Happy Times in Norway is infused with the wish that those cherished days could come again.

"I have been unfaithful to my husband." Marta Oulie's opening line scandalized Norwegian readers in 1907. And yet, Sigrid Undset had a gift for depicting modern women "sympathetically but with merciless truthfulness," as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. At the time she was one of the youngest recipients and only the third woman so honored. It was Undset's honest story of a young woman's love life--"the immoral kind," as she herself bluntly put it--that made her first novel an instant sensation in Norway.

Marta Oulie,...