Books like Kristin Lavransdatter
In fourteenth-century Norway, a farmer's daughter defies her father to marry the charming, reckless knight she loves and lives out the long consequences of that choice.
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The Axe
In thirteenth-century Norway, Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn, raised together and betrothed as children, give in to each other before the marriage is settled, and blood is shed over it.
Gunnar's Daughter
In Iceland and Norway around the year 1000, Vigdis Gunnarsdatter is raped by the young Norwegian Ljot, raises the son she bears alone, and nurses her vengeance.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
The Eighth Life
Six generations of a Georgian family unfold across a century of Soviet violence, chocolate, and love, addressed by a great-aunt to her niece.
The Pillars of the Earth
A master builder in twelfth-century England devotes his life to constructing a cathedral, and the project spans decades of war, famine, and political intrigue.
The Knights of the Cross
Around 1400, the young Polish knight Zbyszko of Bogdaniec vows to win three peacock plumes from the helmets of the Teutonic Knights for Danusia, and his oath draws him into the long war with the Order.
Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
The Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.
The Peasants
A year in the life of the village of Lipce, autumn to summer, centred on the rich widowed farmer Maciej Boryna, his marriage to the young beauty Jagna and his son Antek's fury.
The Fall of the King
In sixteenth-century Denmark, Mikkel Thøgersen, a restless student, is drawn into the service of King Christian II, and into the wars, cruelties and decline of his reign.
Lucky Per
Per Sidenius, the rebellious son of a provincial Lutheran pastor, goes to Copenhagen to become an engineer with a grand scheme of canals and harbours, and wins a rich Jewish family's daughter.
Dream of the Red Chamber
Jia Baoyu, the sensitive heir of a great aristocratic family in eighteenth-century China, grows up among his cousins in a vast garden, as love, ambition and debt bring the household down.