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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.
Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
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.
The Story of Gösta Berling
A defrocked, drunken priest joins the band of cavaliers living off the mistress of a great Värmland estate, and their year of revels brings ruin and redemption to the district.
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.
After the Divorce
When Costantino is sentenced to prison for a murder he didn't commit, his wife Giovanna, under a new law allowing divorce, takes a richer husband in their Sardinian village.
Morning and Evening
The birth of Johannes, a fisherman's son on the Norwegian coast, and, many years later, a day near the end of his life.
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.