Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her early
novels portrayed modern women “sympathetically but with merciless
truthfulness”; her later works, including the internationally
bestselling Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, contained “powerful
pictures of Northern life in medieval times.”
Tiina Nunnally won the 2001 pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation
Prize for her translation of the Penguin Classics Kristin
Lavransdatter trilogy. She lives in Seattle.
“[Undset] was an uncommonly fine writer of fiction.”-- The New York
Times Book Review
“Jenny is a stunningly atmospheric yet frank and searching
drama about a young woman painter struggling to reconcile her need
to make art with her longing for and fear of love. This brooding
book can stand with the best of the moderns.”-- Booklist
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