Written by the author of the Norwegian-American classic "Giants in the Earth", these six short stories reveal in miniature O.E. Rolvaag's profound understanding of human motivation and his gift for capturing Norwegian-American humor. In these stories - never before published in English - we meet several unforgettable characters, including three self-assured but happless fishermen, a jilted but vengeful farm girl, a new country pastor and his wife whose phone is monitored by their parishioners, and a retired farm wife who awakens to a new sense of self-determination in her marriage. This collection is a fitting complement to Rolvaag's sweeping novels of American frontier life. Rolvaag scholars and admirers, high school and college teachers, and anyone with an interest in immigrant fiction and the American West will want to read these stories by one of America's most famous authors.
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The shorter prose works (stories, tales, and sketches) by Ole E. Rolvaag should have appeared in the English language long ago. But...the collection...was worth the waiting. All readers, regardless of background, will experience the art of storytelling - oral in style - as if they had been first told in a living room or from a tree stump in the backyard and not created in the cerebral setting of a private study. --Lloyd Hustvedt, Norwegian-American Historical Association
This translation is a highly commendable enterprise, bringing to American readers a block of relatively unknown Rolvaag material in the form of his best short stories. ... The translations are wholly faithful, with the needed adaptation to English usage, and they read easily and interestingly. --Einar Haugen, Harvard University
This translation is a highly commendable enterprise, bringing to American readers a block of relatively unknown Rolvaag material in the form of his best short stories. ... The translations are wholly faithful, with the needed adaptation to English usage, and they read easily and interestingly. --Einar Haugen, Harvard University
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