The Son Avenger: Volume IV of The Master of Hestviken

by Sigrid Undset

Book Overview

Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679755527
• ISBN13: 9780679755524
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"