Emigrants

Emigrants

Emigrants

Johan Bojer

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Editorial:
Minnesota Historical Society Press-IPS
Año de edición:
1991
Materia
Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9780873512602
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Bojer's novel of Norwegian emigration in the 1880s tells of young villagers who leave the Old World to seek a better life. Their trek takes them to homesteads in North Dakota, where they find that breaking the sod and surviving blizzards are easier than feeling at home in this new land.

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