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Translated by Jennifer Baverstam This book is the first in the five-volume Stockholm Series. A masterpiece of historical realism, this sweeping narrative creates unforgettable characters and gives a cross-section of life in nineteenth-century Stockholm. City of My Dreams broke the record for bestsellers in Sweden. Fogelstrom, who was born in 1917, is greatly respected as a chronicler of his people. Ingmar Bergman made one of his earlier novels into a movie, Summer with Monika. A statue of show more him is at the entrance to the hall where the Nobel prizes are awarded. Size 6x9, over 332 pages. Perfect bound show lessTags
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Read this in preparation for our just completed trip to Sweden. While not a travel book to tell you anything about present day Stockholm, Fogelstorm paints a wonderfully grim picture of life in the 19th century slums of a growing city. I loved the book.
En stark, trovärdig skildring om Stockholm för länge sedan. Ibland tycker jag att Fogelström "placerar" lite för mycket - både fakta och miljöer, men förvånansvärt ofta är det riktigt riktigt bra. Det är ju trots allt skrivet 1960!
Nej, Henning Nilsson med familjs öden har varit riktigt intressanta att följa.
Nej, Henning Nilsson med familjs öden har varit riktigt intressanta att följa.
May 2, 2012Swedish
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- Canonical title
- Stockholm, City of My Dreams
- Original title
- Mina drömmars stad
- Original publication date
- 1960
- People/Characters*
- Henning Nilsson; Lotten Nilsson; Ture "Tummen" Lindgren; August Bodin; Emelie Nilsson; Annika Bodin (show all 8); Fredrik Bodin; Skräcken
- Important places
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Related movies*
- Mina drömmars stad (1976 | IMDb)
- First words*
- I begynnelsen fick staden sitt sigill och märke: murar och torn intill vatten.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Staden väntade.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.73 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish fiction
- LCC
- PT9875 .F613 .M4813 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Swedish literature Individual authors or works 1900-1960
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- English, Swedish
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