" probably Sigrid Undset's strong-willed, sensual, self-destructive and ultimately rock-solid Kristin Lavransdatter. This trilogy includes illicit sex, affairs, a church fire, an attempted rape, ocean voyages, rebellious virgins cooped up in a convent, predatory priests, an attempted human sacrifice, floods, fights, murders, violent suicide, a gay king, drunken revelry, the Bubonic Plague, deathbed confessions, and sex that makes its heroine ache 'with astonishment-that this was the iniquity that all the songs were about.' " - Ruth Graham, Slate Rereading the trilogy this fall, I kept thinking of Olive Kitteridge, another powerful novel about a prickly mother turned into a worthy HBO miniseries. If HBO is looking for its next miniseries, it should give Kristin Lavransdatter the proper adaptation it deserves. whose huge commercial success suggests there is a market for series in translation about fierce, complicated women navigating their culturally conservative European milieu. By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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