Winter : IV. Winter

✍ Scribed by Tiina Nunnally; Sigrid Undset

• Book ID: 112085852
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 292 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781452970189

✦ Synopsis

The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize -winning writer's epic of one man's fateful life in medieval Norway

Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil, bloody family vendettas, and rising tensions between secular powers and an ascendant church, Sigrid Undset's spellbinding masterpiece now follows the fortunes of Olav Audunssøn to the final, dramatic chapter of his life as it unfolds in Winter, the last volume of the tetralogy. When the orphaned Olav and his foster sister Ingunn became betrothed in their youth, a chain of events was set in motion that eventually led to violence, banishment, and a family separation lasting years. The consequences fracture their marriage and threaten the lineage for generations. Now, at the end of his life, Olav continues to grapple with the guilt of his sins as he watches his children, especially Eirik, make disastrous choices and struggle to find their rightful place in a family...