Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley's The
Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old
Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europe's most far-flung
outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed
meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders 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 takes us into this world
of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and
longstanding feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote
time, place, and people not only real but dear to us.