When I Was a Child (An Autobiographical Novel)
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Product Details
Author:
Vilhelm Moberg
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
280
Publisher:
Minnesota Historical Society Press (February 15, 2014)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780873519250
ISBN-10:
0873519256
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.5"
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Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$18.95
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26
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Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Pub Discount:
60
Weight:
12.8oz
Imprint:
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Overview
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood.
When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he learns to write his stories down instead. He willingly leaves school and helps support his family by working in lumber camps and a glass factory. His father's ill health and death bring even harder times. Through all his toil, he debates whether to honor his father's wish and remain in Sweden to support his mother.
With gentle irony and a loving knowledge of the landscape, the people, and the larger issue of class struggle, Moberg offers American readers a deeply moving view of the other side of Swedish immigration.
When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he learns to write his stories down instead. He willingly leaves school and helps support his family by working in lumber camps and a glass factory. His father's ill health and death bring even harder times. Through all his toil, he debates whether to honor his father's wish and remain in Sweden to support his mother.
With gentle irony and a loving knowledge of the landscape, the people, and the larger issue of class struggle, Moberg offers American readers a deeply moving view of the other side of Swedish immigration.
