Books like Jerusalem
A revival movement splits a farming parish in Dalarna, and a group of villagers sells their ancestral farms to follow its preacher to a religious colony in Jerusalem.
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The Emperor of Portugallia
Jan, a poor crofter in Värmland, adores his daughter Klara Gulla, and when she leaves for Stockholm to pay off the family's debt and doesn't come back, his mind slips into the belief that she is an empress.
The Peasants
A year in the life of the village of Lipce, autumn to summer, centred on the rich widowed farmer Maciej Boryna, his marriage to the young beauty Jagna and his son Antek's fury.
Synnøve Solbakken
In a Norwegian mountain valley, Thorbjørn, a quarrelsome farmer's son, loves Synnøve, the gentle girl of the neighbouring farm, but her pious parents won't hear of a match until he learns to master his temper.
Paradise Reclaimed
Steinar, a poor, upright Icelandic farmer, gives his daughter's beloved pony to the King of Denmark and later leaves his family to follow a Mormon missionary to Utah.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
Charlotte Löwensköld
In 1830s Värmland, the lively Charlotte Löwensköld is engaged to her cousin Karl-Artur, a fiercely pious young clergyman, and one careless remark about money sets both their lives on a different course.
Reeds in the Wind
In a Sardinian village, three ageing sisters of a ruined noble family and their devoted servant Efix, who carries a secret, wait for a nephew from the mainland who might save them.
Satan in Goray
In the town of Goray, rebuilt after the massacres of 1648, the news that the messiah Sabbatai Zevi has come drives the community into a frenzy.
When Rain Clouds Gather
Makhaya, a political refugee from South Africa, crosses into Botswana and settles in the village of Golema Mmidi, where an English agricultural worker is trying to change how the villagers farm.
Lucky Per
Per Sidenius, the rebellious son of a provincial Lutheran pastor, goes to Copenhagen to become an engineer with a grand scheme of canals and harbours, and wins a rich Jewish family's daughter.
Wanderers
An ageing writer takes to the road as a labourer in rural Norway, working on farms and estates, and falls under the spell of a captain's wife at one of them.