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      The Greenlanders

      by Jane Smiley
      Published
      Apr 1989
      Main Genre
      Historical Romance Hist. Romance
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      582
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      From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres—and "a diverse and masterly writer" (The New York Times Book Review)—comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, that takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland and tells the story of a proud landowner and his unforgettable family. 

      Jane Smiley brings us to a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains. This is the story of one family: proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Jane Smiley immerses us in this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us.

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      General Fiction Romance

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      Historical Historical Romance

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      First Edition Apr 1989 Ivy ISBN13 9780804104531 ISBN10 0804104530
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      Sep 1996 Ballantine ISBN13 9780449910894 ISBN10 044991089X
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      Sep 2005 Anchor ISBN13 9781400095469 ISBN10 1400095468
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      Mar 1988 Knopf ISBN13 9780394551203 ISBN10 0394551206
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      Sep 1989 Random House ISBN13 9780517699393 ISBN10 0517699397
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      Jan 2011 Knopf ISBN13 9780307788047 ISBN10 0307788040
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