Judit Martin, originally from the American Midwest, has been living
in rural Sweden since 1969. She has published several short stories
in Scottish literary magazines, two books in Swedish, and one novel
in English. These five short stories are historical fiction
inspired by the lives of people Martin has known or known about.
They depict life from a different era and the hardships that people
of that time dealt with in day to day life. The stories take place
in the nineteenth or early twentieth century. Samuel tells the
story of a tailor's son who marries a woman considered by her peers
to be a "whore" due to her illegitimate daughter. Alulf tells of a
Swedish immigrant living in America who creates a fictional and
successful life for himself through photographs he takes. Hilda
describes the life of a seven-year-old girl sent to be a maid for
her elderly aunt and uncle. The struggles that a woman must face
when her father dies and thus leaves the control of his estate in
the hands of a cruel squire are shown in Elin and Teo, and Tora
describes the hardships that a young country girl endures when she
is sent to town for boarding school. Judit Martin's stories show
the primitive and sometimes inhumane conditions that the poor
endured, simply because it was the way life had always been. The
collection is beautifully written and eye-opening, and a very
worthy read. For Mature Audiences
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