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Happy Times in Norway
Sigrid Undset
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Description for Happy Times in Norway
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNN; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292.
Happy Times in Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undset’s own blissful home life before her nation fell to the Nazi occupation. Captured here is the excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, and summer in the idyllic mountains, as well as the chaotic adventure of raising two energetic boys. With vivid detail and illuminating descriptions of the landscape, Happy Times in Norway is infused with the wish that those cherished days could come again.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816678273
SKU
V9780816678273
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) was a prolific Norwegian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928, and is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. From 1940 to 1945, she lived in the United States in exile because of the German occupation of Norway. She is best known for her epic medieval trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter.
Reviews for Happy Times in Norway
"So simple, so unassuming in spirit is this account that we quite forget it is about the home of one of the world’s greatest writers." —New York Times "Ageless and timeless; a rare book for the whole family." —Horn Book Review