Jenny
About this ebook
Tiina Nunnally has here rendered the Nobel Prize-winning author's first major novel into fresh and vivid prose - and restored passages missing from the novel's first English translation. Marked by lush painterly descriptions and unflinching honesty in matters of the heart, Jenny is an exquisite and devastating account of one woman's search for autonomy. Unsparing, yet glowing with compassion, this novel of the struggle for emancipation feels as fresh today as when it was first written.
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About the author
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) began her writing career while working as a secretary to support her mother and sisters. The publication of her first novel allowed her to abandon office work, and she left her native Norway for Rome, where she met and eventually married a Norwegian painter. Originally published in Norway in 1911, Jenny marked Undset's breakthrough as a writer. A few years later her marriage ended, and she withdrew to rural Norway, where she began work on her medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator of many books from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. She is especially known for her translations of works by Sigrid Undset, including the trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter and the tetralogy Olav Audunssøn.
