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title: "The Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels: Book I"
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# The Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels: Book I

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## Customer Reviews

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    Reading these 4 books was a memorable experience!
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2015*

I completed all four books and cherish the experience.  My local library had only a very old copy of the first book. Luckily I could pick up #2, #3, and #4 in ebook form and read them on my tablet.  What a shame that the library doesn't have the complete collection.  These are books that keep you fully engrossed AND inform and educate you.  They are even  page-turners at times, because you come to care so much about the people, and you worry about them when they face hardship and danger.  Frankly, I cried last night when I finished the 4th book in the set.  The four books cover what life was like in rural Sweden, what it was like coming across the ocean on a long slow crowded voyage, arriving in the U.S., traveling to Minnesota, and homesteading on virgin land.  Sure puts my travails and troubles in perspective. . .  and gives greater depth to my understanding of what made the United States special.Other books I plan to read soon:  Giants in the Earth by Rolvaag; I think maybe I did an oral book report on this in 10th grade and got an A+.  And I picked up used copies of two books by Trygve Gulbranssen about Norway:  Beyond Sing the Woods was one I bought approximately 15 years ago and LOVED, and more recently I bought his next book The Wind from the Mountains.  Now I will read the pair.  Wish these Gulbranssen books were available in ebook format; i invite you to click on the link on Amazon to tell the publisher to digitize them.  If you are fond of reading about days gone by, try Lorna Doone, which is another one on my "should read it again" list.

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    I gained a greater understanding of my own Swedish ancestors
  

*by D***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2019*

I found this book to be wonderfully interesting, providing an insight to what my own great grandfather must have felt in his journey to North America (though 32 years after the setting of this novel). While fictionalized, it made the decision and hardship of emigrating to a largely unknown land, quite real.Having stood on the actual farm of my forebears in Sweden, this past summer, the descriptions of the land and places was so much more real to me and I gained a better appreciation for the hardships that existed. The place is idyllic in and of itself, but obviously the pressures of the church and system of inheritance which left families impoverished, explains why anyone would "give it all up" for the great unknown.The only reason for four stars rather than five is the propensity of the author to sometimes wander into long, somewhat irrelevant narratives. But they are easily recognized and skimming quickly through those passages made them more tolerable.I highly recommend this to anyone with Swedish ancestors who came to America in the second half of the 19th century. It will help you understand why they came here and just how hard it was.

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    A Powerful Original and an Excellent Translation Restored
  

*by W***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2013*

This is a revisit for me. I first encountered the Emigrant tetralogy when I was in Sweden in the 1970's on a sabbatical. After seeing the films based on the novels, I bought the Swedish versions of all four books. Though my Swedish was far from fluent, I could easily recognize an extraordinary prose style. Reading was more like listening to the stories being recited by a master storyteller. I can best describe the style as possessing the gravity and resonance of the King James bible with an addition of affectionate humor over the foibles of the vivid characters.On my return to the US, I looked in my university library to see if English translations existed. They did, but in two volumes rather than four, and with extensive omissions from the original text, evidently intended to protect the sensitive reader from the frank speech of the characters in matters of sex and bodily functions. All in all, a pale reflection of the robust original. I blamed the translator for these depredations, but recently found that the culprit was Moberg's original American publisher, whose censorship Moberg had unsuccessfully fought.The present editions date from the 1990's and show that the translation is in fact an accurate, complete, and eloquent reflection of the Swedish original (I have made spot comparisons). Read not only The Emigrants but all four of the novels in these Minnesota Historical Society versions. You will learn much of American history and the factors that shaped the American character, as well as becoming acquainted with an unforgettable set of characters and their iconic experiences.

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