{"product_id":"olav-audunsson-ii-providence-volume-2-paperback","title":"Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence Volume 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigrid Undset\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTiina Nunnally\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset's fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Norway moves into the fourteenth century, the kingdom continues to be racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas that serve as the backdrop for Sigrid Undset's masterful story about Olav Audunss n and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter. Betrothed as children and raised as foster siblings, their unbridled love for each other sets in motion a series of dire events--with a legacy of betrayal, murder, and disgrace that will echo for generations. In \u003ci\u003eProvidence\u003c\/i\u003e, the second of \u003ci\u003eOlav Audunss n\u003c\/i\u003e's four volumes, Olav settles in at his ancestral estate of Hestviken and soon brings Ingunn home as his wife. Both hope to put their troubles behind them as they start a new life together, but the crimes and shameful secrets of the past have a long reach and a tenacious hold. The consequences of sin, suspicion, and familial obligations may prove a greater threat to the pair's happiness than even their long years of separation.\u003cp\u003eSet in a time when royalty and religion vie for power, and bloodlines and loyalties are effectively law, \u003ci\u003eProvidence\u003c\/i\u003e summons a powerful picture of Northern life in the medieval era, as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding Undset the Nobel Prize. Conveying both the intimate drama of Olav and Ingunn's marriage and the epic sweep of their story, it is at once a moving and vivid recreation of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with her classic \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, Sigrid Undset immersed herself in legal, religious, and historical writings to create in \u003ci\u003eOlav Audunss n\u003c\/i\u003e an astoundingly authentic and compelling portrait of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in her translation of \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, Tiina Nunnally does full justice to Undset's fluid prose. Undset's writing style is by turns straightforward and delicately lyrical, conveying the natural world, the complex culture, and the fraught emotional territory against which Olav's story inexorably unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigrid Undset (1882-1949) was a prolific Norwegian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. From 1940 to 1945, she lived in the United States in exile during the German occupation of Norway. She is best known for her epic medieval trilogy \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e and the tetralogy \u003ci\u003eOlav Audunssøn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiina Nunnally is the award-winning translator of works of Scandinavian literature, including Sigrid Undset's \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club translation prize. She has translated works by Tove Ditlevsen, Ola Larsmo, Per Olov Enquist, and \u003ci\u003eThe Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2019). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.19 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395359916210,"sku":"9781517911607","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/855e7d923495c1d8388c8a87fa05f8c4.webp?v=1777989780","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/olav-audunsson-ii-providence-volume-2-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}