Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Sigrid Undset
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Author: Sigrid UndsetBrand: Penguin Group USA
Editor: Tiina Nunnally
Translator: Tiina Nunnally
Introduction: Brad Leithauser
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-27
ISBN: 0143039164
Number of pages: 1168
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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- ISBN13: 9780143039167
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "I thought that when we would be wed, it would be like Christmas every day. Now I see that it has long periods of fasting."
Summary: 5 Stars
And so is the marriage between Erlend Nikulausson and Kristin Lavransdatter. Although he speaks of her almost habitual pregnancies, this somewhat foreshadows their constant union. His reckless and youthful squandering of their infrequent good fortune and their stanch love for the other is what keeps your fingers tense for the next page. This is not a story of daily passion and easy living, but that of nearly spent passion and stubborn love, followed by weighty hardships and never before thought of consequences. Undset gives you the honor of following Kristin from the tender age of seven to almost fifty.
Although I am not a mother and am far too young to be one (by God, I turned fifteen five months ago), you will live through Kristin and see her children -your children- sired, reared and raised all to manhood, fear for their inheritance and lineage, ache when you learn about a child begotten of a mistress, marriages procured through less then socially acceptable circumstances of the day, and weep as she does for their either lost or ruined lives.
Every one of Undset's characters, young, old, dead and gone, are true to form and never deviate from themselves. This is why Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in literature for this profound trilogy, and if you are so lucky as to read this, I know you'd not disagree.
All in all, this book is a masterpiece not just of literature, but of life itself. As you might already be able to tell, I give this book my firm approval and a 5/5 stars for capturing my mind, from which I know is the case, because I constantly think back to these books.
To conclude my review, I say buy, buy, buy, and you'll not regret it.
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