{"product_id":"marta-oulie-a-novel-of-betrayal-paperback","title":"Marta Oulie: A Novel of Betrayal - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigrid Undset\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTiina Nunnally\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have been unfaithful to my husband.\" \u003ci\u003eMarta Oulie\u003c\/i\u003e's opening line scandalized Norwegian readers in 1907. And yet, Sigrid Undset had a gift for depicting modern women \"sympathetically but with merciless truthfulness,\" as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. At the time she was one of the youngest recipients and only the third woman so honored. It was Undset's honest story of a young woman's love life--\"the immoral kind,\" as she herself bluntly put it--that made her first novel an instant sensation in Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarta Oulie\u003c\/i\u003e, written in the form of a diary, intimately documents the inner life of a young woman disappointed and constrained by the conventions of marriage as she longs for an all-consuming passion. Set in Kristiania (now Oslo) at the beginning of the twentieth century, Undset's book is an incomparable psychological portrait of a woman whose destiny is defined by the changing mores of her day--as she descends, inevitably, into an ever-darker reckoning. Remarkably, though Undset's other works have attracted generations of readers, \u003ci\u003eMarta Oulie \u003c\/i\u003ehas never before appeared in English translation. Tiina Nunnally, whose award-winning translation of Undset's \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e captured the author's beautifully clear style, conveys the voice of Marta Oulie with all the stark poignancy of the original Norwegian. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigrid Undset (1882-1949) is considered one of Norway's greatest writers. She is best known for the epic medieval trilogy \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, published between 1920 and 1922, and the four-volume work \u003ci\u003eOlav Audunssøn\u003c\/i\u003e (translated in 1928 as \u003ci\u003eThe Master of Hestviken\u003c\/i\u003e), published between 1925 and 1927. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTiina Nunnally is the translator of more than fifty works of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Jenny\u003c\/i\u003e by Sigrid Undset, \u003ci\u003eThe Royal Physician's Visit\u003c\/i\u003e by Per Olov Enquist, and \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e by Vidar Sundstøl (Minnesota, 2013). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJane Smiley is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. \n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.92 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45966490960069,"sku":"9780816692521","price":23.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/dcd0WOgoS69780816692521.webp?v=1773691513","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/marta-oulie-a-novel-of-betrayal-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}