Series B: English Translations of Works of Scandinavian Literature
3 total works
B32
The final volume in Ekman's quartet of novels depicting life in a Swedish railway town. Ann-Marie searches for identity and meaning in a modern, secularized society. The suggestion that lives attain meaning and even a kind of immortality by being remembered and narrated is central to the book.
No 23
This is a translation of the author's tetralogy, published between 1974 and 1983, that traces the growth and development of a railroad town by portaying working-class women and children, rather than society's movers and shakers.
B31
The third volume in Kerstin Ekman's quartet of novels about life in a small Swedish railway town. It covers the period from the late 1920s to the 1940s. The women are growing older, and although they no longer face hard physical work, they are trapped in repetitive factory jobs.