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The Greenlanders

By Jane Smiley

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| Paperback | 9781400095469

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Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.

Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed Continue

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The Greenlanders

This book turned out to be quite the undertaking. The way the book is constructed (dense type with no chapter breaks) didn't work really well with my "stolen moments" reading style. The story wasn't poorly written, however I frequently found myself distracted from the story by the very smallest of ... (continue)

This book turned out to be quite the undertaking. The way the book is constructed (dense type with no chapter breaks) didn't work really well with my "stolen moments" reading style. The story wasn't poorly written, however I frequently found myself distracted from the story by the very smallest of things. I would put the book back down at the end of my "stolen moment" and find I had only read one or two pages at most when I would have finished a chapter in most other books. That made this book go on forever - so glad it's done.

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