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The Emigrants

The Emigrants

by Vilhelm Moberg  •  Gustaf Lannestock (Translator)

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 366 PAGES

The first in a series of four novels about Karl Oscar and Kritina Nilsson, a Swedish couple who flee poverty and oppression in Sweden with their three children to make a new life in Minnesota. The author, Vilhelm Moberg, one of Swedens' great 20th century writers, captures the daily lives of Swedish pioneers in early America. With a new introduction by Roger McKnight, head of Swedish Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.  (SWE14, $19.95)


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