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1352887Giants in the Earthhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/giants-in-the-earth-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1117672/c02d44dc-193a-47f2-8e5d-a0bef0de0fa1.jpg?v=638337412847000000249292MXNHarperCollinsInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.<em>The Nation</em></strong></p><p><strong>O. E. Rolvaags classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plainsa vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America</strong></p><p>Based in part on Ole Edvart Rlvaags own recollections as well of those of his wifes family who were immigrant homesteaders, <em>Giants in the Earth</em> is the riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. Rlvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairieblizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shockas well as their simple joys, culminating in a magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American dream.</p><p>"A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterious distances and its capacity for evil, is painted with alternating beauty and grimness." <em>The Atlantic</em></p>...1341039Giants in the Earth249292https://www.gandhi.com.mx/giants-in-the-earth-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1117672/c02d44dc-193a-47f2-8e5d-a0bef0de0fa1.jpg?v=638337412847000000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780063308343_W3siaWQiOiI0OTUyODcxNS0xMjFkLTRmZDEtODdiMC03MjA3Yzg4YzY4M2IiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI4NSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI0MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780063308343_<p><strong>The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America. <em>The Nation</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Giants in the Earth</em> is Ole Edvart Rlvaags classic Norweigian-American immigration novel.</strong></p><p>Part of a trilogy, the novel follows a Norwegian pioneer familys 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 Rlvaags personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wifes 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.</p><p><em>Giants in the Earth</em> was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.</p>...(*_*)9780063308343_<p><strong>The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.<em>The Nation</em></strong></p><p><strong>O. E. Rolvaags classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plainsa vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America</strong></p><p>Based in part on Ole Edvart Rlvaags own recollections as well of those of his wifes family who were immigrant homesteaders, <em>Giants in the Earth</em> is the riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. Rlvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairieblizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shockas well as their simple joys, culminating in a magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American dream.</p><p>"A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterious distances and its capacity for evil, is painted with alternating beauty and grimness." <em>The Atlantic</em></p>...9780063308343_HarperCollinslibro_electonico_8403a7cd-2b0e-32f5-b788-04af0f118db5_9780063308343;9780063308343_9780063308343Ole EdvartInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/harpercollins-epub-b4f8de5c-f256-4881-8f50-de0c728d393d.epub2023-01-03T00:00:00+00:00HarperCollins