{"product_id":"peder-victorious-o-e-rzilvaag-9780803289062","title":"Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeder Victorious\u003c\/i\u003e, the sequel to Rölvaag's massive \u003ci\u003eGiants in the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's \"vikings of the prairie\"--Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e O. E. Rölvaag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803289065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803289062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.28w x 0.77d","brand":"O. E. Rölvaag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871624671487,"sku":"9780803289062","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peder-victorious-o-e-rzilvaag-9780803289062","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}