Giants in the Earthby O. E. Rolvaag | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Historical" |
| Pages: | 453 |
| Year of Publication: | 1927 |
| Date Added: | 03/03/1999 |
| Date Read: | 05/10/1999 |
| Notes: | Giants in the Earth chronicles the struggles of Norwegian immigrant settlers in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s. Per Hansa, his wife, Beret, their children, and three other families settle at Spring Creek, living in makeshift sod huts. Surviving the winters’ fierce blizzards, they see their crops destroyed by locusts in summer. They nonetheless persist; new settlers arrive, and the community grows COMMENTS — The book was first published in Norway. It has two sequels, Peder Victorious and Their Fathers’ God. |
| My Rating: | 5 |