Translator: linda.schenck
Author: Majgull Axelsson
Publisher: Random House
Year of Publication: 2002
The children of the characters from Witches’ Rings move toward adulthood and Tora and Frida toward middle age, as the reader is drawn into this narrative of life in early twentieth-century Sweden.
The second volume of the Women and the City tetralogy, The Spring follows the women the reader encountered in Witches’ Rings, mainly through the years between the World Wars.
Translator: linda.schenck
Author: Kerstin Ekman
Publisher: Norvik Press
Year of Publication: 1997
The lives of working class women and children are followed here, rather than the lives of the wealthy and powerful, in a small Swedish community. The tetralogy continues until the 1970s, covering a full century.
Kerstin Ekman, one of the foremost living Swedish authors, began what became a tetralogy commonly referred to as Women in the City, with this volume in 1997. it opens in the 1870s, and follows the women of a small community as it grows, thanks to the advent of the railroad, among other changes.
Translator: Neil Smith
Author: Ralph Edenheim
Publisher: Scala Books
Year of Publication: 1995
Translator: Sarah Death
Author: Fredrika Bremer
Publisher: Norvik Press
Year of Publication: 1995
One evening at the end of February 1829 I found myself at Skanstull Gate in a little open sleigh at the height of a dreadful snowstorm, frozen, exhausted, and wishing I were asleep. I had to wait for the statutory visit of the customs inspector before I could enter the Swedish capital. My dear young reader, your sympathetic soul will appreciate that I was in a most unenviable position.
Fredrika Bremer was a nineteenth-century writing sensation, her bestselling novels and travel books instantly translated into a range of other European languages. This early work shows she was never afraid to abandon the prevailing conventions of insipid romantic fiction to explore the social and moral problems facing women. This novel also has one of the most interesting narrators one could wish to meet: the plain-speaking but perceptive housekeeper Beata Hvardagslag, called back to the family to cook up a solution to their problems, Metaphors of kitchen and household abound in her astonishingly modern, metacritical approach to storytelling.
