The Emigrants - Johan Bojer

How strange and terrifying it must be to leave your home and journey to lands unknown to seek a better life. Bojer\'s novel tells of a group of young Norwegian villagers who decide to emigrate to North Dakota, where they find that \'breaking the sod and surviving blizzards\' is easier than feeling at home in this new land. It is a story of the hardships and joys, successes and setbacks, and perhaps most of all, the longing for both Norway and the US. These are the same feelings felt today by anyone... Zobrazit více