Peder Victorious

About this film

LibriVox recording of Peder Victorious by O. E. Rølvaag. (Translated by Nora Solum.) Read in English by Tom Shoesmith. Peder Victorious is the sequel to Giants in the Earth and follows the Norwegian immigrant community in the Dakota Territory. The novel centers on Peder, the son of Per Hansa and Beret Holm, following the loss of Per in a snowstorm twenty years earlier. The book continues the exploration of the frontier immigrant experience, as the first generation of settlers feels their home culture slipping away and the new generation, born in America, struggles to find their blended identities. This is a story of a boy’s growth into adulthood, and a mother’s gradual acceptance of the changes inevitably wrought by time and circumstance. - Summary by Tom Shoesmith For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook 01-08 (163MB) M4B Audiobook 09-16 (164MB)

Directors & creators

O. E. Rølvaag

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;immigrants; pioneers; coming of age; loneliness; homesickness; family life; dakota territory; religious experience; great plains; generational conflict; homesteading; cultural assimilation; norwegian immigrant experience; language and identity

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