The Wild Orchid, Hardcover/Sigrid Undset

The Wild Orchid, the first volume of Nobel Prize-winning Undset's novel The Winding Road , is the story of Paul Selmer, a typical child of the experientially emancipated, intellectually enlightened modern age. The son of upper middle class Protestant parents, who divorced when he was a teenager, Paul is raised along with his sister and two brothers by his mother to be a freethinker. Amidst the prosaic trappings of his work and play, the pursuit of a mistress and then a marriage, and with the threat of a world war looming over Norway, Paul yearns for a deeper, more abiding meaning and order for his hopes and loves. Similar to Undset's masterpieces Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken , The Wild Orchid manifests the raw honesty and sensitivity with which its author perceives the human experience, capturing the peculiar tensions and harmonies of flesh and spirit in a drama of germinating grace. Book specifications: Dimensions: 216 x 140 Author: Sigrid Undset Cover type: Hardcover Publishing Year: 2019 Publishing Month: 4 Pages: 360 Language: English Publisher: Cluny Media Weight: 590 g