num_pages: 1069
description: "The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." -- Commonweal"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."-- New York Herald Tribune"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be."-- Ruth Suckow in the Des Moines Register
language: English
title: Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath/The Mistress of Husaby/The Cross
titlecomplete: Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath/The Mistress of Husaby/The Cross
characters: Kristin Lavransdattar
genres: Fiction, Historical, Literature, Classics, Medieval, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 11577
places: Norway, Gudbrandsdalen
series: Kristin Lavransdatter
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Tiina Nunnally
publisher: Random House USA Inc.