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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 287
Utgivningsdatum: 1998-12-01
Upplaga: New ed
Förlag: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Översättare: M S Lacy
Originalspråk: Swedish
Illustratör/Fotograf: Margaret S Lacy
Dimensioner: 215 x 140 x 25 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9780935312812

Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this rare novel is the first volume in Martinson's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy. Told through the seven-year-old child Mia's eyes, the novel portrays a life of dreadful poverty, recording in detail Mia's beautiful mother's pregnancies by her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband; the succession of rented rooms infested with rats and lice, where Mia lives; the insiduous separateness and cruelty that the haves inflict on the have-nots. "A poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John Steinbeck."-Booklist

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