Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803289062)

Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rvaag's "vikings of the prairie"--Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tseten and Kjersti, and Sine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory.

Author: O. E. Rvaag
ISBN-10: 0803289065
ISBN-13: 9780803289062
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1982
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.28w x 0.77d