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In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream

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Description for In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 b/w illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNN; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.

Eric Dregni’s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that—mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries—it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendipitous, as the notice that Dregni won a Fulbright Fellowship to go there arrived the same week as the knowledge that his wife Katy was pregnant. Braving a birth abroad and benefiting from a remarkably generous health care system, the Dregnis’ family came full circle when their son Eilif was born in Norway.

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Dregni’s Scandinavian roots do little to prepare him and his family for the year in Trondheim eating herring cakes, obeying the conformist Janteloven (Jante’s law), and enduring the mørketid (dark time). In Cod We Trust is one Minnesota family’s spirited excursion into Scandinavian life. The land of the midnight sun is far stranger than they previously thought, and their encounters show that there is much we can learn from its unique and surprising culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816656240
SKU
V9780816656240
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99-30

About Eric Dregni
Eric Dregni lives in Minneapolis, is dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village, and is assistant professor of English and journalism at Concordia University. He is the author of sixteen books, including four other titles from the University of Minnesota Press: Vikings in the Attic, Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital, Midwest Marvels, and ... Read more

Reviews for In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream
"Eric Dregni's spirited travel memoir to Norway joins that classic American genre—the quest tale in search of family and ethnic roots. It's a special pleasure to see the Scandinavian immigration story teased out here with wit and acuity, the immigrant going the other way. In Cod We Trust is the story of a man not only looking for his family ... Read more

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