Happy Times in Norway
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Happy Times in Norway
By (Author) Sigrid Undset
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
12th June 2013
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
948.104092
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 133mm, Height 197mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Happy Timesin Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undsets 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.
Reviews
"So simple, so unassuming in spirit is this account that we quite forget it is about the home of one of the worlds greatest writers."New York Times
"Ageless and timeless; a rare book for the whole family."Horn Book Review
Author Bio
Sigrid Undset (18821949) 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.
