Karl Oskar Nilsson and his wife, Kristina, own a farm in Ljuder socken in Smland.

The first part of the novel describes the hardships faced by rural families in Sweden. The story takes place in the 1840s up to 1850.

It is the first part of The Emigrants series. 'It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers. The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg from 1949. Description Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. From 1949 to 1959, the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg wrote the Emigrants series, which counts four volumes. The first book in Vilhelm Moberg's four-volume Emigrant novel series. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.īook 1 introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and eleven others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Småland in 1850. The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) Published in 1949. It is the story of Swedish immigrants coming to America and of their trials an The. First published between 19 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. The Emigrants is the first in a series of four books by Vilhelm Moberg. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America.

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