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Loading... Merab's Beauty (1983)by Torgny Lindgren
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Each of the stories in Torgny Lindgren's Merab's Beautyis a small gem of a portrait -- a cross-section of a Northern Swedish agricultural community mostly in the first third of the 20th c. The volume is soaked with piety, guilt, hard-work, and passion -- touched by TB and the world wars -- but hardly at all by technology or the outside world. The tone is more lyrical than grim, but I could have used a bit more sunshine by the time I finished. And, while I appreciate the iridescence of a good story, I'm not really fond of reading a whole collection at once, no doubt why it took me a month to finish this slim volume. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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In these stories from the tradition of farmer folk living in the north of Sweden, the author brings to life a whole gallery of simple characters in funny and tragic situations. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.7Literature German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Swedish literatureLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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