Vilhelm Moberg
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Maria Montner
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Maria Montner
Agent
Maria Montner
Agent
Maria Montner
Category: Fiction
Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with the epic series The Emigrants. The four, very loved books, were published between 1949 and 1959 and deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century. Vilhelm Moberg was involved in the fight against Nazism and published the novel Ride This Night during World War II, with a clear connection to the resistance against Nazi Germany.
Books by Vilhelm Moberg
The Immigrants
Vilhelm Moberg
When Karl Oskar and Kristina arrive in New York, they meet a country that welcomes them with open arms. Immediately they begin the long journey to Minnesota in the USA, where they will build their new home. Their traveling companions from Ljuder pari…
The Settlers
Vilhelm Moberg
For the second time, Karl Oskar and Kristina build a home, but this time it is in a new country and on a new continent. Together they struggle with the new farm and build a new community with their neighbors,a life filled with both joy and setbacks.
The Last Letter Home
Vilhelm Moberg
In THE LAST LETTER HOME, Vilhelm Moberg concludes ‘The Emigrant’ series, as grand as he began it. Karl Oskar and Kristina are old and their lives are soon to end, but they can look back on a life together of both of of struggles and happiness. A life…
The Emigrants
Vilhelm Moberg
THE EMIGRANTS is the first part of Vilhelm Moberg’s large ‘Emigrant’ epic about Kristina, Karl Oskar, Robert, Arvid and everyone else in the parish of Ljuder. After many years of famine and other hardships in a poverty-stricken Sweden, they decide to…
