Description
Across generations of the Löwensköld family, a quiet, long-anticipated engagement is tested by faith, duty, and the weight of inherited expectation. As Colonel Beate Ekenstedt’s life veers from promise toward uncompromising religious conviction, the family’s fragile social bonds strain—threatening love, reputation, and even the happiness of those closest to him. Into this tension steps Charlotte Löwensköld, whose presence reveals how “family fate” can operate as both psychological burden and social force, turning private choices into public consequences. With Selma Lagerlöf’s signature blend of moral inquiry and penetrating character insight, this novel explores themes of belief and control, the costs of rigidity, and the unsettling ways the past can shape the present—without ever surrendering to simple answers.
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Published May 17, 2022
281 pages
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First Published
1925
Language
swe
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