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By Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling writer Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is a charming novel within the epic culture of the outdated Norse sagas.Set within the fourteenth century in Europe’s so much farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and excessive, darkish mountains, The Greenlanders is the tale of 1 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 wisdom is on the compelling heart of this unforgettable booklet. Jane Smiley takes us into this international of farmers, clergymen, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and via an act of literary magic, makes a distant time, position, and folks not just actual yet expensive to us.
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She shouted. ” Julianna started into his cell, but Oliver looked up, panic on his face. They’d known it would be difficult. After being imprisoned so long, the only advantage they had was surprise. But that had lasted only seconds and in Oliver’s expression Julianna saw that it hadn’t been enough. The Atlanteans were too fast. They weren’t all going to get out. ” Oliver shouted. He tore the helmet off of the dead Yucatazcan guard and began beating one of the Atlanteans about the head with it, still struggling over the sword.
Legend-Born, for instance,” Coyote said merrily. Another woman might have thought herself mocked, but Virgina only nodded. The past few weeks, her debates with her son had spilled onto the promenade, playing out for patrons of their café and anyone passing by. Virginia Tsing had assured her son a hundred times that the only way the Lost Ones who were not already part of the army would rise up would be if the invaders were marching toward their homes, or if the Legend-Born had truly come. “If the Bascombes reveal themselves as Legend-Born,” the old woman said, “the Lost will stand with them against the treachery of Yucatazca or Atlantis.
Wayland Smith simply could not allow that. Whatever it required, he had to see that King Hunyadi was victorious and that the Bascombes survived to fulfill their destiny. One of the Bascombes, he thought, correcting himself. Not that he wished harm to befall either one of them, but as long as one lived, his plans could still bear fruit. He had spent long years laying the foundations. He would not be thwarted now. Smith strode along a mist-shrouded path, one of the Gray Corridors that wound in and out of the worlds, allowing him to move not only between parallel realities but between locations in a single world.