Books like 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.
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Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
The Mother
In a remote Sardinian mountain village, the mother of the young parish priest learns that her son, for whom she gave up everything, is visiting a lonely woman at night.
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.
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.
Selected Short Stories
Tagore's Bengali stories of the 1890s and after: a postmaster and the orphan girl who keeps house for him, a Kabuliwallah fruit-seller and a small girl, child brides and village clerks.
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.
The Tree of Man
Stan Parker clears a patch of bush outside Sydney around 1900, brings home his young wife Amy, and the two of them make a farm and a life together over fifty years.
The Maid Silja
Silja, the last daughter of a ruined Finnish farming family, goes into service on farms and estates in the years around 1918, a young woman of quiet grace in hard times.
Independent People
An Icelandic sheep farmer who worked for years to own his own land refuses to bend to anyone, and his family pays for his fierce independence across decades of hardship.
My Brilliant Friend
A shoemaker's brilliant daughter in postwar Naples forms an intense friendship that spans sixty years, surviving poverty, violence, ambition, and the changing face of Italy.
The Village
Two brothers born serfs in the village of Durnovka, Tikhon, who has clawed his way to owning a shop and land, and Kuzma, a self-taught poet, take stock of the brutal country life around them.
Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.