The Last Letter Home

by Vilhelm Moberg

The Emigrant Novels (4)

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From the Publisher: Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.

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Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
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En fantastisk serie om det hårda livet för utvandrarna under andra hälften av 1800-talet. En historiabeskrivning berättat ur den människans perspektiv. Fantastiskt berättat av den kaske största arbetarförfattaren vi har haft.
Den avslutande delen av Utvandrareposet håller stilen... eller åtminstone nästan. Var det någon gång under läsningen av alla delar som det kanske kändes lite tungrott och utdraget så var det i denna sista. Men det är ändå väldigt, väldigt bra.

När jag gav mig in på att verkligen läsa den här serien förväntade jag mig något halvmossigt tungt gammalt verk. Men så är det inte. Språket och historien håller fortfarande mycket bra.
Romanen är något mer reflekterande, där läsaren får möta såväl det amerikanska inbördeskriget som ett indianuppror. Kristina blir sjuk och möter många svårigheter.

Sista brevet till Sverige handlar om landet som förändrade dem.
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Moberg-La-Saga-des-emigrants-volume-4--Les-Pionni...
> Le Livre de Poche (celiatas) : https://fr.calameo.com/books/0043038443afedcb9a996

> Un mélo superbement écrit, gonflé par le souffle du malheur, des tempêtes et de l'espoir. Un livre bouleversant, monument historique en Suède.
--Christophe Tison, Cosmopolitan

> Écrivant à la pointe sèche, sans romantisme, avec une retenue d'où sourd la colère, Vilhelm Moberq rend hommage à ces émigrants. Il est justice que ce texte majeur soit enfin traduit intégralement en français.
--Marie-Laure Le Foulon, Lire

> Moberq a du souffle, un vrai talent de conteur. Il fait alterner le rire et les larmes, le documentaire et le poétique.
--Daniel show more Martin, La Montagne show less

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The Emigrants (1949) is the first volume of Moberg's internationally famous tetralogy describing the lives of Swedish emigrants in the nineteenth century. The Last Letter Home (1959) completes this psychologically penetrating and historically accurate treatment of Swedish settlement in Chisago County, Minnesota. Moberg's strident individualism and show more enduring empathy with the common people are also seen in A Time on Earth (1962), in which the old Swedish-American Albert Carlson assesses his life as death approaches. In Scandinavia, Moberg is famous as a historian and dramatist as well as a novelist. His History of the Swedish People (1970--71), of which two volumes were completed when he died in 1973, depicts in characteristically vivid language the life of the common folk---in sharp contrast to that of kings and nobility---throughout Sweden's history. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Last Letter Home
Original title
Sista brevet till Sverige
Original publication date
1959
People/Characters
Karl Oskar Nilsson; Kristina
Important places
Minnesota, USA
Related movies
Nybyggarna (1972 | IMDb)
First words
It was in the beginning of the age of the telegraph.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ticknat med Agtning af Axel J. Andersson.
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
839.7372Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesSwedish literatureSwedish fiction1900-19991900-1945
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PT9875 .M5 .S513Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesSwedish literatureIndividual authors or works1900-1960
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