The People of Hemso
A farmhand marries the widow who owns the farm and sets about remaking a small Stockholm island. Strindberg 1887 comedy of ambition, barely read outside Sweden.
A farmhand arrives on a small island in the Stockholm archipelago, marries the widow who owns the farm, and sets about remaking the place and everyone on it. Strindberg 1887 comic novel about ambition and rural society is direct, compelling, and almost unread outside Sweden, which is harder to explain than its neglect suggests.
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Tyler Cowen
Hardly anyone (non-Swedish?) reads this classic novel any more, but it holds up as one of the more compelling creations of its time. Direct and compelling. Swedish people on an island, but will this marriage work? Why has it so faded from our attentions?
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