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Title	:	Giants in the Earth (Fortælling om norske nykommere i Amerika #1 & 2)
Author	:	O.E. Rølvaag
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 531 pages
Published	:	August 4th 1999 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1925)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature

Giants in the Earth (Fortælling om norske nykommere i Amerika #1 & 2)

O.E. Rølvaag

Paperback | Pages: 531 pages

Rating: 4 | 4911 Users | 498 Reviews

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Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: Verdens Grøde) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. First published in Norway as two books in 1924 and 1925, the author collaborated with Minnesotan Lincoln Colcord on the English translation.

The novel follows a Norwegian family's struggles as they try to make a new life as pioneers in the Dakota territory. Rølvaag is interested in psychology and the human cost of empire building, at a time when other writers focused on the glamor and romance of the West. The book reflects his personal experiences as a settler as well as the immigrant homesteader experience of his wife’s family. Both the grim realities of pioneering and the gloomy fatalism of the Norse mind are captured in depictions of snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. It is a novel at once palpably European and distinctly American.

Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.

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Original Title:	Verdens Grøde
ISBN:	0060931930 (ISBN13: 9780060931933)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Fortælling om norske nykommere i Amerika #1 & 2
Characters:	Per Hansa
Setting:	Dakota Territory(United States)

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A giant of a pioneer novel. Isolation, loneliness and death in the stark midwest states...I have never forgotten the ending, first read when 15, of humble pioneer, 1870s, whose wife sends him into a blizzard, because--you see.... the horrid wife became a (red state) religious crackpot...and thus, out of religious - evil, America develops...with too many deaths.

I can understand that this book is not for everyone but I was shocked to read some of the sarcastic silly reviews. This book was written in a foreign language in 1927 and I approached it as a history book. I wasn't expecting a bodice ripper.One might wonder how I can assign 5 stars to such a slow paced read but I hope that I can explain my view of this wonderful history. Giants is not meant to compete with nor mimic Little House On The Prairie. I adored all of the Ingall's books and re-read them



Thought I would re-read this book about Norwegian pioneers in South Dakota, in anticipation of the arrival of our exchange student from Norway.I love this book. It answers many of the adult questions I had when re-reading Little House on the Prairie with my kids. How did the mother bear the intense isolation? What was the psychological impact of that endless horizon? Did bugs crawl out of the sod house walls? (However, like the Little House books, Giants is silent on the subject of frontier

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I first skimmed it 25 years ago, looking for good quotations to insert into a paper due the next day for a college immigration history class. Of course, the assignment had been to read the book, not skim it, but no such luck. Since then, I've remembered it as bleak and cold and brimming with Hans and Hansas. Now that I've actually read the book, I realize that my earlier assessment didn't do the novel justice. The psychological drama that plays

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This sits atop my most recommended. It is an intense tale of struggle and determination. It follows a family and their group of friends as they establish a settlement on the prairie. As always I am moved by something the author may not have intended, a story within the story; I regard this among the best love stories I've read. The protagonists' dedication and sacrifice cuts so deep that the love is more bitter than sweet... in the face of their hardships the smallest kindness is a triumph,