The Greenlanders

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres-and "a diverse and masterly writer" (The New York Times Book Review)-comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, that takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland and tells the story of a proud landowner and his unforgettable family.

Jane Smiley brings us to a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains. This is the story of one family: proud land...