false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586355m/14305.jpg 14305 10 Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley&#8217;s <b>The Greenlanders</b><i> </i>is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.<br><br>Set in the fourteenth century in Europe&#8217;s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, <b>The Greenlanders</b><i> </i>is the story of one family&#8211;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 long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us. 351416 1988 The Greenlanders total:280|5:87|4:95|3:64|2:20|1:14| 280 1061 431 60 2 1 false false Tue Apr 03 15:30:20 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 14:16:27 -0700 2007
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I had to drag myself through this 700 page epic about 14th century Norse people in Greenland. The first few hundred pages were utterly confusing - with dozens of significant and insignificant characters (and no way to distinguish the two) w...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 12:19:50 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 16:31:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Oct 13 19:32:08 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 19:35:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri May 30 06:13:42 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 17:40:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 08:09:48 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 08:18:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 14 10:36:18 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 10:41:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 16:14:22 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 11:09:01 -0800 2008 Since the book was written as a histor...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 12:12:37 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 12:12:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 18:00:59 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:04:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Jun 03 13:23:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 13:25:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false true Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 07 18:21:38 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:43:15 -0700 2009 The Greenlanders started off a bit slowly and I was having trouble keeping track of who everyone was, and then somewhere around page 75 or so, everything clicked into place and I decided that I loved this novel about the doomed Viking settlement in Greenland. Smiley's prose is so spare and elegant ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Jan 21 14:52:58 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 14:54:31 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 21:40:53 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 23:34:25 -0700 2007
It's also interesting to see how she deals with the decline of a civilization from a combination of climate chan...more...]]> 1 0 true false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 08:58:08 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 09:42:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993 Tue Feb 17 21:19:02 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 21:20:48 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 28 12:33:27 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:36:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 21:06:36 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 21:07:04 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=14305