My Mother Gets Married (1936)

by Moa Martinson

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Series: Miaserien (bok 1)

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Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this novel is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Mia, as she observes her mother's relationship with her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband.Booklist calls the novel, "a poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John Steinbeck."… (more)

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Mycket bra berättelse om Mias uppväxt som fattig flicka i början av förra seklet. Boken är absolut läsvärd och jag är imponerad av att författaren kunde skriva så trovärdigt hur ett barn upplever olika situationer. (

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Martinson, Moa	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Ebba Witt-Brattström	Preface	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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My Mother Gets Married

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Mor gifter sig

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1936

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Mia Stenman

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Norrköping, Sverige

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Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this novel is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Mia, as she observes her mother's relationship with her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband.Booklist calls the novel, "a poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John Steinbeck."

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Five öre, bread, rags. Her mother knows; she's learning. How can adults love?