The Greenlanders (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Smiley
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Culture, History, Family or family life, Natural disasters, Environment or environmental health, Fourteenth century, Greenland or Greenlanders
- Locales: Greenland
THE GREENLANDERS immediately takes the reader back to another time and place: “Asgeir Gunnarsson farmed at Gunnars Stead near Undir Hofdi church in Austfjord.... From the time he took over the farm upon the death of his father, this Asgeir had a great reputation among the Greenlanders for pride.” The style is that of the Scandinavian sagas, in which concrete bits of information mix with superstition, in which joy and sorrow, violence and visions are recounted in the same matter-of-fact tone. Smiley’s success is such that the reader takes in the story much as her characters listen...
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