Romanen om utvandrarna : Nybyggarna & Sista brevet till Sverige

The Emigrants #3-4

by Vilhelm Moberg

Den långa resan till Minnesota är över. Karl Oskar bryter ny mark vid indiansjön Ki-Chi-Saga, av nybyggarna döpt till Chisago Lake. Landet är gott, men påfrestningarna är stora. För Kristina är ensamheten och hemlängtan värst.
När ett tiotal år har gått och de invandrade svenskarna vant sig vid varandra och sin nya hembygd hamnar de mitt i korselden mellan den amerikanska regeringen och landets urinvånare. De svältande och bedragna indianerna utkräver hämnd: Varje vit man skall dö! Men livet fortsätter efter Indianupproret. Det föds nya svenskar i Minnesota, svenskar som är lika mycket irländska, tyska och norska - amerikaner kort och gott.

Genres: Fiction, Roman

854 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and plays and also participated in public debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism against the Hitler regime.

A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic. He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings. In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to offer the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow.

Reviews

[Tove · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andra bästa läsningen i hela mitt liv

[Oscar Thoors · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inte lika bra som de två tidigare i utvandrar serien. Känns som om Moberg stapplade lite i historien.

[Jacob Gren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Väldigt glad att jag läste de här till slut. Fantastiska fina

[Kaia Landelius]

No idea when I read this. Late nineties?