The Emigrants
Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850.
Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780873513197 (0873513193)
Publish date: September 1st 1995
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages no: 366
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
19th Century,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature
Series: The Emigrants (#1)
SUMMER 2011: Utvandrarna (1971) - I have caught hold of the film so a story re-visit with Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann can't be bad.Interesting bit today in the swedish press:Researchers study how Swedish is spoken in the United States a century after the great Swedish migration to North America.Re...
I read this back in the 70s in Swedish along with the other following books. Every Swede reads this suite of books. It is like impossible to not read them. Moberg's work is a classic. I wonder what I would think if I were to read them today?
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