Description
A young Swedish couple, Karl Oskar and Kristina, set out with their fellow emigrants in search of a new life across the Atlantic, carrying with them the hopes, hardships, and hard-won bonds of a community uprooted by economic pressure and social change. As the journey unfolds, their choices and relationships are tested by distance, uncertainty, and the relentless demands of survival, while the wider group’s differing temperaments shape the emigrant experience in vivid, human ways. Rooted in historical detail and driven by character, the novel explores themes of migration, faith, family loyalty, and the cost of reinvention—what it means to leave home and what it takes to build belonging. Written with Moberg’s grounded, socially aware storytelling, the book reads like a living chronicle of ordinary people confronting extraordinary change.
Available Editions
paperback
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published Jan 1, 1972
367 pages
ISBN: 9780006130246
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Details
First Published
1949
Language
eng
Translation
From: swe
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg.