Description: The first book in Vilhelm Moberg's four-volume Emigrant novel series.
Review Quotes: "Warm and sympathetic . . . finely written and deeply moving."
New York Times Book Review "Obviously Moberg's major work. . . . He writes with clarity and vigor." New York Herald Tribune Book Review "A worthy book . . . very serious in its purpose." New Yorker "Moberg's emigrant sequence is our literature's most magnificent epic." Helmer Lång, Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly "It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers." Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute