"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America." — The Nation
Ole Edvart Rølvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on Rølvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife’s family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.

Giants in the Earth

Literature & Fiction

O. E. Rolvaag

United States

Harper Brothers

Peder Victorious by Rolvaag, O. E

Harper Publishing

I de dage (Giants in the Earth) (Norwegian Edition)

Den norske Bokklubben

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