Welcome to the Showers of Books Giveaway Hop, hosted by I Am A Reader Not A Writer and Books a la Mode.
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full list at either of the host sites to enter some more amazing
giveaways.
Read on to see what you can win here!
Prize: A paperback copy of Jenny by Sigrid Undset and Day-Walker & Time Keepers swag.
When Jenny was
published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral — “this is a side
of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would
rather not know.” The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented
Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration but
ultimately betrays her own ambitions and ideals. After falling into an
affair with the married father of a would-be suitor, Jenny has a baby
out-of- wedlock and decides to raise the child on her own. Undset’ s
portrayal of a woman struggling toward independence and fulfillment is
written with an unflinching, clear-eyed honesty that renders her story
as compelling today as it was nearly a century ago.
This new
translation by Tiina Nunnally captures the fresh, vivid style of
Undset’s writing and restores passages omitted from the only previous
edition to appear in English, which was published in 1921. Most famous
for her later, historical fiction set in Catholic, medieval Scandinavia,
Undset stands revealed with Jenny, her first major novel, as an
unsparing, compassionate, magnificent realist, the creator of works that
are at once thoroughly modern and of enduring interest.
This giveaway is International
Anyone over 16 years of age can participate
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Entries close at midnight on 30th April 2013 (Adelaide Time)
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