Giants in the Earth

Available from Scandinavian Specialties when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Now available in a beautifully designed package for a new generation of readers, Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains—a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the conquest of the American continent. “The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.”— The Nation Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s own recollections as well of those of his wife’s family who