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Witches' Rings (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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R503
R457
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Witches' Rings portrays the history of a rural society in a new
light, tracing its development through the lives of working class
women and children rather than authorities and decision-makers. The
central character is a woman so anonymous that her name is not even
mentioned on her gravestone. This novel, written in 1974 and now
published for the first time in English, is the first volume of a
tetralogy which follows a Swedish community through a hundred years
of recent history to the present day.
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City of Light (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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R516
R471
Discovery Miles 4 710
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Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the
Swedish town in which she grew up in order to sell the old house
she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are
everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house, alone
with her memories of her father, an idiosyncratic character whom
only she truly understood. She is also nervously awaiting the
arrival of her daughter, and now realises that she has never really
tried to understand her. With this eloquent and gripping story
Kerstin Ekman concludes her epic sequence of novels, Women and the
City (whose earlier volumes Witches' Rings, The Spring and The
Angel House are also available from Norvik Press). City of Light is
an intensely moving novel about love, in a rich and unusual variety
of forms, and also a sensitive and thoughtful depiction of the way
in which human beings approach life and one another.
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The Spring (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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R506
R460
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Kerstin Ekman's novel Blackwater took the world by storm in 1993
and has now been translated into over twenty-five languages. But
her reputation as one of Sweden's best-known and most successful
authors rests just as securely upon the series of four novels she
wrote between 1974 and 1983, which are based on the author's
childhood home town of Katrineholm some forty miles southwest of
Stockholm. The first of these, Witches' Rings, which portrays the
final years of the nineteenth century in a small urban community on
the cusp of industrialisation, was published by Norvik Press in
1997. The Spring, which focuses on the lives of three women, Tora,
Frida and Ingrid, moves the story on from the early twentieth
century to the interwar years. According to Ekman herself, two
major socio-psychological studies carried out in Katrineholm
indicate 'that this was a community with which its inhabitants were
content... I have devoted eleven years of my life to maintaining
the exact opposite.' This is accomplished in a narrative of great
subtlety and compelling power; once again Kerstin Ekman recreates
the past with an authenticity that resonates urgently in the
present.
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The Loewenskoeld Ring (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Linda Schenck; Preface by Helena Forsas-Scott
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R361
R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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The Loewenskoeld Ring (1925) is the first volume of the trilogy
considered to have been Selma Lagerloef's last work of prose
fiction. Set in the Swedish province of Varmland in the eighteenth
century, the narrative traces the consequences of the theft of
General Loewenskoeld's ring from his coffin, and develops into a
disturbing tale of revenge from beyond the grave. It is also a tale
about decisive women. The narrative twists and the foregrounding of
alternative interpretations confront the reader with a pervasive
sense of ambiguity. Along with the narrative technique, the spell
of the ring extends into the two subsequent volumes, Charlotte
Loewenskoeld (1925) and Anna Svard (1928).
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Banished (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Linda Schenck; Foreword by Helena Forsas-Scott
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R544
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What happens to an individual who is rejected by society? What
happens to a society that eventually realises the living are more
important than the dead, and that it is suffering a crisis of
values and priorities? What does war do to us and to our outlook on
the world? Selma Lagerloef struggled with these issues throughout
World War I and experienced a mental block in writing about them.
Then she found an opening and produced a thought-provoking tale of
love, death and survival that grapples with moral dilemmas as
relevant today as they were a century ago. Selma Lagerloef
(1858-1940) stablished herself as a major author of novels and
short stories, and her work has been translated into close to 50
languages. Most of the translations into English were made soon
after the publication of the original Swedish texts and have long
been out of date. This Norvik Press series, 'Lagerloef in English',
provides English-language readers with high-quality new
translations of a selection of the Nobel Laureate's most important
texts.
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Anna Svard (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Linda Schenck; Foreword by Helena Forsas-Scott; Afterword by Linda Schenck
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R549
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The curse on the Loewenskoeld family comes to fruition in
unexpected ways in this final volume of the Loewenskoeld cycle.
Anna Svard is also very much a novel of women's struggle toward
finding fulfillment. The Loewenskoeld Ring resonates with 'beggars
cannot be choosers' in relation to what a poor woman can expect in
life, while Charlotte Loewenskoeld moves toward women having some
choices. In Anna Svard the eponymous protagonist takes full and
impressive control of her own life and destiny. The question of
motherhood and the fates of the children with whom the characters
engage is another theme. The reader goes on to follow Charlotte,
Karl-Artur, Thea and their families, familiar from the previous
volume, through this compact novel as it moves relentlessly toward
a chilling denoument. Selma Lagerloef (1858-1940) quickly
established herself as a major author of novels and short stories,
and her work has been translated into close to 50 languages. Most
of the translations into English were made soon after the
publication of the original Swedish texts and have long been out of
date. 'Lagerloef in English' provides English-language readers with
high-quality new translations of a selection of the Nobel
Laureate's most important texts.
A curse rests on the Loewenskoeld family, as narrated in The
Loewenskoeld Ring. Charlotte Loewenskoeld is the tale of the
following generations, a story of psychological insight and social
commentary, and of the complexities of a mother-son relationship.
Charlotte is in love with Karl-Arthur - both have some Loewenskoeld
blood. Their young love is ill fated; each goes on to marry
another. How we make our life 'choices' and what evil forces can be
at play around us is beautifully and ironically depicted by Selma
Lagerloef, who was in her sixties when she wrote this tour de force
with the lightest imaginable touch.
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God's Mercy (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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R652
R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
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When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the
university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet
(Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiance, she is ill prepared
for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated
territory, she encounters the overwhelming and unpredictable forces
of nature and demoralizing poverty and ignorance while also gaining
access to the unfamiliar world of nomadic Sami reindeer herders. A
single traumatic event, never fully confronted, has devastating and
far-reaching repercussions, but Hillevi also finds unexpected
warmth and love. Incorporating elements of the "jojk" oral
tradition of Sami culture, "God's Mercy" is a thoroughly engrossing
story about the capriciousness of memory, the resilience of the
human psyche, and the endless wonder of the wild.
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