{"product_id":"gunnars-daughter-9780141180205","title":"Gunnar's Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than a decade before writing \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published \u003ci\u003eGunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country's history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, \u003ci\u003eGunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor--until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1909, \u003ci\u003eGunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, \u003ci\u003e Gunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time--and in ours--as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141180205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.76h x 5.06w x 0.55d","brand":"Sigrid Undset","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36634801373340,"sku":"9780141180205","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_41ad9e1f-9497-4894-980f-2be10919d284.jpg?v=1603837687","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gunnars-daughter-9780141180205","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}