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"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America." -- The Nation
Ole Edvart R lvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel.
Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on R lvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land.
Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Rolvaag, OLE Edvart
- ISBN: 9780060931933
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.04 x 1.32
- Number Of Pages: 560
- Publication Year: 1999
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