Hemsöborna
by August Strindberg
Swedish • Public Domain • Free to stream
Life, love and conflict on the Stockholm archipelago islands. Strindberg's most popular and warmly comic novel — deeply Swedish in character and setting.
About the book: Hemsöborna
August Strindberg wrote The People of Hemsö, published in 1887, to combat his homesickness while living abroad in Germany and France. Although Hemsö is a fictional island, it is based on Kymmendö, where Strindberg had spent time in his youth.
The novel is about the life of people on the island in the Stockholm archipelago. Mrs Anna Eva Flod, a widow of some means, hires Johannes Edvard Carlsson to run the farm on the island. As a newcomer and a landlubber among sailors and fishermen, Carlsson is implicitly distrusted by the locals as they try to discern whether Carlsson is a slippery confidence trickster preying on the lonely widow, or an honest, hard-working man revitalizing the neglected farm.
Written during a difficult period in exile from Sweden, the novel paradoxically has a strong sense of place, and is a feat of straightforward folksy storytelling.
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Hemsöborna was written by August Strindberg.
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