The Son Avenger
Author: Undset, Sigrid
ISBN: 9780679755524
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 24 Jun 1995
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.
ISBN: 9780679755524
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 24 Jun 1995
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.
