### From Publishers Weekly In this vast, intricately patterned novel, Smiley accurately captures the voice of the medieval sagas. Understated, scattered with dreams and warnings, darkened by the brooding sense of unavoidable disasters to come, it is the tale of a Scandinavian settlement that lasted
Greenlanders
โ Scribed by Smiley, Jane
- Book ID
- 108273860
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 533 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307788047
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โฆ Synopsis
Here is the compelling story of a family--the proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarson, his son, Gunnar, and his daughter, Margret. Echoing the simple power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings an ancient civilization to life with the timeless power of real storytelling.
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### From Publishers Weekly In this vast, intricately patterned novel, Smiley accurately captures the voice of the medieval sagas. Understated, scattered with dreams and warnings, darkened by the brooding sense of unavoidable disasters to come, it is the tale of a Scandinavian settlement that lasted
"Totally compelling...fsacinating....Sweeps the reader along...Jane Smiley is a true storyteller."THE WASHINGTON POSTA magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland, here is a rich and fascinating detail about the day-to-day lives--the joys and innumerble hardships--of a remarkable people. It is