Jenny
Sigrid Undset author Tiina Nunnally translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Publishing:28th Jan '27
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 28th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£16.99(9781586420505)
Jenny Winge, a young Norwegian artist, lives abroad in Rome at the turn of the twentieth century, socialising with fellow Bohemian expats and aspiring to a life of passionate creative work and personal integrity. When another Norwegian seeking freedom from the austere Protestant atmosphere at home enters her circle, she finds herself succumbing to a desire for affection and companionship that leads her to compromise her ideals. One failed relationship leads to another and soon Jenny is pregnant out of wedlock, facing a life far different from her dreams. 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.
Everyone and everything leaps off the page, wonderfully alive... Undset's masterly depiction of Jenny's evolving emotions makes one realize that one is in the presence of an acute observer... An uncommonly fine writer of fiction * New York Times *
Wonderful... A writer of spare vigor * New York Review of Books *
Striking... Undset's daring, feminist vision was remarkably diverse in its subject matter. Undset was that rare author capable of letting readers immerse themselves in the "distant past", and also of confronting them with contemporary reality as she, and many women like her, saw it * Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse *
Jenny is a stunningly atmospheric yet frank and searching drama about a young woman painter struggling to reconcile her need to make art with her longing for and fear of love. This brooding book can stand with the best of the moderns * Booklist *
Unflinchingly modern and realistic in [her] depictions of women struggling for independence and fulfillment in a male-dominated world... The writing is direct and dramatic in the brooding Nordic manner... * Publishers Weekly *
ISBN: 9781782697091
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
320 pages