The Master of Hestviken

by Sigrid Undset

Book Overview

The Master of Hestviken [Apr 01, 1978] Undset, Sigrid This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452260345
• ISBN13: 9780452260344
• Release Date: April 1978
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Board a time machine

This book transports one back to Medieval Norway so successfully that it is almost effortless. The tale is an epic but the boundaries are always human and defined within the scope of that enclosed society. Despite the centuries separating the book with the current era, the same problems, relationships, loves, hates, worries, guilt and religious devoltion are present.Incredible writing and kudos to the translation.

Extraordinary depiction of human guilt and consequences

This book, along with author's Kristin Lavransdatter, I believe to be the two most outstanding novels ever written. Though cast in late medieval Norway, they portray timeless relationships between men and women, guilt and punishment, historical perspective and profound understanding of human nature. Simply the best.