Peder Victorious

A coming of age immigrant narrative. When I began reading, I had no idea that this is book two of a trilogy. Now that I've read book two, I can just about guess the story in book one and book three, which I'm not going to read--not because this book was bad, but it was also not stellar. This particular book focuses its attention on Peder, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, who is straddling the line (forced by his mother, a first generation immigrant) between retaining the "old ways" and becoming assimilated. There are many conflicts, of which the largest one in this book is that of religion. This story is set in South Dakota, where there was/is a large settlement of Norwegian immigrants. In the end it seems that author has tied up show more everything with a nice ribbon! 325 pages show less

This book is the sequel to "Giants in the Earth," an engrossing adventure story about the settlement of the South Dakota prairie. Peder turned out to be entirely different, more cerebral, slower, less exhuberant. I read Giants to learn what my ancestors

1019 Peder Victorious A Novel, by O. E. Rolvaag translated from the Norwegian by Nora O. Solum and the Author (read 23 Aug 1969) I read this as a direct result of re-reading Rolvaag's masterpiece, Giants in the Earth. I was not nearly as impressed by it as by Giants, and so decided I would not read the third volume in the trilogy, Their Father's God. But my memory of these two books is such I may yet read that third volume, if I can locate a copy . (On 28 May 2012 I did read said third volume.)

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