Sigrid Undset
2 books
- Jenny Winge is a painter in Rome who holds herself to impossible standards, then watches her own choices unravel her. Undset is unsparing about love, work, and what women were allowed to want in 1911.
- You settle into Kristin’s medieval Norway slowly, among farm work, church life, family loyalties, and the vivid moral pressure of her bond with Lavrans. Her attraction to the reckless Erlend gives the novel its heat, but the real pleasure is watching a thoughtful young woman test the limits of obedience and desire.