{"product_id":"9780804104531","title":"The Greenlanders","description":" \"HAUNTING.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003eJane Smiley, the Pultizer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, gives us a magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail about the day-to-day joys and innumerable hardships of remarkable people, The Greenlanders is also the compelling 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. Echoing the simple power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings a remote civilization to life and shows how it was very like our own.\u003cbr\u003e\"TOTALLY COMPELLING . . . FASCINATING . . . In the manner of the big books of the nineteenth century, in which complex family and community matters unravel—Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy—The Greenlanders sweeps the reader along. . . . Jane Smiley is a true storyteller.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"A POWERFUL, MOVING STUDY OF HUMAN FRAILTY AND THE EPHEMERAL NATURE OF COURAGE AND LOVE.\"\u003cbr\u003e—USA Today\u003cbr\u003e\"WONDERFUL . . . A HISTORICAL NOVEL WITH THE NEARNESS OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The New Republic\u003cbr\u003e\"[AN] EPIC MASTERPIECE . . . SPELLBINDING.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Newsday\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026238095600,"sku":"9780804104531","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804104531_p0.gif?v=1763723950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804104531","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}