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    In the Wilderness: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 3
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    In the Wilderness: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 3

    By Sigrid Undset

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    It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he is a man of wealth and stature. But he is haunted by the memory of crimes for which there is no easy atonement and by losses that may never be redeemed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 8, 2010
    ISBN9780307773104
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    In the Wilderness: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 3
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    Sigrid Undset

    Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was a Norwegian novelist. Born in Denmark, Undset moved with her family to Norway at the age of two. Raised in Oslo, Undset was on track to attend university before her father’s death derailed the family’s economic stability. At 16, Undset started working as a secretary for an engineering firm while writing and studying on the side. After a voluminous novel set in the Nordic Middle Ages failed to find a publisher, Undset made her literary debut at 25 with Fru Marta Oulie, a short realist novel about a middle-class Norwegian woman. Over the next decade, she published at a prodigious rate, earning a reputation as a rising star in Norwegian literature with such novels as Jenny (1911) and Vaaren (1914). This success allowed her to quit her job as a secretary in order to dedicate herself to her writing. Shaken by the First World War, however, Undset converted to Catholicism and began to shift away from realism toward spiritual and moral themes. Between 1920 and 1922, she published her magnum opus Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy set in Norway in the Middle Ages that secured her the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. A longtime critic of Adolph Hitler, Undset was forced to flee Norway following the Nazi invasion in 1940. She made her way via Sweden to the United States, where she lived for the remainder of the war. Undset returned to Norway in 1945, spending her final years in Lillehammer.

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    • 4/5
      The third volume of the Hestviken series, which regains some of the momentum which flagged a bit in the second volume. More focused on Olav here, for obvious reasons, which ends up working quite well.
    • 3/5
      So. When we last left Olav Audunsson his wife, Ingunn, had finally died after a super long illness. Left alone with two children, a biological daughter, Cecelia, and an adopted son, Eiric, Olav struggles to rebuild his life. He is still overshadowed by immense guilt about past transgressions. Additionally, throughout The Snake Pit Olav was not well liked by his community. He didn't make an effort to belong in any way. Now, awash in grief, Olav is drift in more ways than one, prompting him to travel to London, England for a bit. Upon his return he agrees to foster the young daughter of a dying friend. It's this act which brings Olav back to life. This is enough to spur Olav on to fight for his homestead; to risk life and limb in a bloody battle against the Swedes. This might be somewhat of a spoiler alert, but Olav survives the bitter war but is gravely wounded in the face. His disfigurement lends Olav a somber grace he has not felt before.