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Knut Toring #3
Giv oss jorden!
”Nu kom någon från andra hållet med raska steg. Pappa! Pappa, som varit på dagsverke hos Eskilssons, kom hem igen. Och Kajsa hoppade fram på vägen och ilade emot honom. Knut Toring tog emot dottern med ett litet grepp i hennes öra som om han velat känna efter om det satt lika fast som vanligt. Kajsa skrattade. Pappa brukade ta emot henne på det sättet. Han var barnslig på många sätt, pappa, men hon låtsades sällan om det.”
Medan världen kapprustar inför ett andra världskrig lämnar Knut Toring och hans familj Stockholm för att återvända till Småland. Men torparlivet i sin barndoms by Lidalycke motsvarar inte de förväntningar han skapat under sin tid i huvudstaden, och omställningen från arbetet på veckotidningen blir komplicerad. Med hjälp av Betty, en självständig och bestämd kvinna, gör han upp planer för att modernisera bygdens lantbruk – till de äldre böndernas förtret. Snart märks också konsekvenserna av Europas förberedelser inför krig även i djupaste Småland.
Medan världen kapprustar inför ett andra världskrig lämnar Knut Toring och hans familj Stockholm för att återvända till Småland. Men torparlivet i sin barndoms by Lidalycke motsvarar inte de förväntningar han skapat under sin tid i huvudstaden, och omställningen från arbetet på veckotidningen blir komplicerad. Med hjälp av Betty, en självständig och bestämd kvinna, gör han upp planer för att modernisera bygdens lantbruk – till de äldre böndernas förtret. Snart märks också konsekvenserna av Europas förberedelser inför krig även i djupaste Småland.
- GenresSwedish Literature
268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1939
29 people want to read
About the author
Vilhelm Moberg
178 books207 followersVilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and plays and also participated in public debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism against the Hitler regime.
A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic. He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings. In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to offer the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow.
A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic. He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings. In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to offer the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow.
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January 18, 2025
Apparently not a widely read book as this is the first review on Goodreads, even though the book was published in 1940. It was a lengthy read for me as the original Swedish publication was three shorter novels.
I like Vilhelm’s poetic prose such as this description:
“Knut walked home by himself. There was not a cloud in the dark-blue midnight sky. Host of stars glittered above him, and between them the dark blue fields flowed like streams of ink spilled on a cloth of sparkling silver. “
The protagonist is a young Swedish lad/man who describes what it was like in 1930s rural Sweden and also Stockholm. The story covers his youth right through his 30s. Ominously the book ends just as WW2 is beginning.
I like Vilhelm’s poetic prose such as this description:
“Knut walked home by himself. There was not a cloud in the dark-blue midnight sky. Host of stars glittered above him, and between them the dark blue fields flowed like streams of ink spilled on a cloth of sparkling silver. “
The protagonist is a young Swedish lad/man who describes what it was like in 1930s rural Sweden and also Stockholm. The story covers his youth right through his 30s. Ominously the book ends just as WW2 is beginning.
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