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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. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. 

A devastating novel about memory, alienation, and trauma from acclaimed novelist W. G. Sebald. The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school...

When Isabel Silvan emigrated from Spain on the Orteric in 1911 with her family against her wishes, she faced the dangers and foreign culture of a new world. After falling in love with a fellow Spaniard during the voyage, she later endures multiple heartaches, leading her into an arranged marriage. She silently vows to chase the illusive mystery of duende, which she fears she left behind in Fuentesaúco, but her road is complicated. Seeking Duende in America is about the travails of this Spanish woman later in Vacaville during Prohibition when the Roaring 20’s speakeasies kept alcohol ...