![]() ![]() ![]() As Undset’s 1,000-plus pages end, readers would no more sacrifice one of them than Kristin would have missed a day. The plague stirs her into one final, extraordinary deed to crown a rich life driven by love, risk and faith. ![]() Yet she lives, in Sigrid Undset’s great novel, almost seven centuries ago, in a land scourged at the book’s close by the Black Death. Kristin is a multi-faceted heroine whose thoughts, doubts and passions speak directly to readers of today. She decides that “that there was not a single day that she would have given back to God without lament or a single sorrow she would have relinquished without regret”. As Sigrid Undset’s historical trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter marks its centenary, Boyd Tonkin celebrates a literary masterpiece that appeals to readers of both Hilary Mantel and Game of Thrones.Īt the end of the epic trilogy that bears her name, and as a lethal pandemic rages, Kristin Lavransdatter looks back on her life in 14th-century Norway. ![]()
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