{"product_id":"olav-audunsson-iii-crossroads-volume-3-paperback","title":"Olav Audunssøn: III. Crossroads Volume 3 - 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 third volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset's fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early fourteenth century, Norway is a kingdom in political turmoil, struggling with opposing forces within its own borders and drawn into strife with neighboring Sweden and Denmark. Bloody family vendettas and conflicting loyalties sparked by the irrepressible passion of a boy and his foster sister (also his betrothed) have now set in motion a series of terrible consequences--with a legacy of betrayal, murder, and disgrace that will echo down through the generations. \u003ci\u003eCrossroads, \u003c\/i\u003e the third of \u003ci\u003eOlav Audunss n\u003c\/i\u003e's four volumes, finds Olav heartbroken by loss and further estranged from his son. To escape his grief, Olav leaves his home estate of Hestviken and agrees to serve as captain on a small merchant ship headed to London. There, separated from everything familiar to him, Olav begins a visionary journey that will send him far into the forest and deep into his soul. Questioning past decisions and future plans, Olav must grapple with his own perceptions of love and guilt, sin and penitence, vengeance and forgiveness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a time and place where royalty and religion vie for power, and bloodlines and loyalties are law, \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e summons a powerful picture of Northern life in medieval times, as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding Sigrid Undset the Nobel Prize in 1928. Conveying both the intimate drama and epic sweep of Olav's story as grief and guilt drive him to ever more desperate action, \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving and masterly re-creation of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter, \u003c\/i\u003e her earlier medieval epic, Undset immersed herself in the legal, religious, and historical documents of the time while writing \u003ci\u003eOlav Audunss n\u003c\/i\u003e to create astoundingly authentic and compelling portraits of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in her translation of \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter, \u003c\/i\u003eTiina Nunnally does full justice to Undset's natural, fluid prose, in a style that delicately and lyrically conveys 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. 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\u003eand the tetralogy Olav Audunssøn. Her novel \u003ci\u003eMarta Oulie\u003c\/i\u003e is also published in translation by the University of Minnesota Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tiina Nunnally is the award-winning translator of many 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 books by Tove Ditlevsen, Ola Larsmo, Vidar Sundstøl, and Per Olov Enquist, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2019).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.26 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766145745184,"sku":"9781517913342","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/84261d9093c44fc57606aca06ac2836b.webp?v=1780286519","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/olav-audunsson-iii-crossroads-volume-3-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}