{"product_id":"9780141180205","title":"Gunnar's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a decade before writing \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published \u003ci\u003eGunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country's history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, \u003ci\u003eGunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor — until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e First published in 1909, \u003ci\u003eGunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period,\u003ci\u003e Gunnar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time — and in ours — as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011681796336,"sku":"9780141180205","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141180205_p0.jpg?v=1763655598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141180205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}