The story focuses primarily on Karl Oskar Nilsson and his wife, Kristina Johansdotter, a young married couple who live with their four small children Anna, Johan, Lill-Märta, and Harald, as well as Karl Oskar's parents and his rebellious younger brother Robert, who works as a hired farmhand for neighboring farmers. The novel-series describes the long and strenuous journey for a party of emigrants from the province of Småland, Sweden, to the United States in 1850, coinciding with the beginning of the first significant wave of immigration to the United States from Sweden. The novels are generally considered to be among the best pieces of Swedish literature. The Last Letter Home (title in Swedish: Sista brevet till Sverige 'The Last Letter to Sweden'), 1959Īll the books have been translated into English. Unto a Good Land (title in Swedish: Invandrarna 'The Immigrants'), 1952 The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna), 1949 The Emigrants is the collective name of a series of four novels by the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg:
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