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Nikolai`s Fortune: Nikolai's Fortune

Autor Solveig Torvik
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 noi 2012

As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik¿s great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. As a reporter, Torvik determined to discover the fate of the man who followed his dreams to Oregon. She uncovered not only the story of one man, but also the saga of an entire family. In Nikolai¿s Fortune, a tale of Scandinavian women, the journalist turns fact into fiction and shares the tales of her ancestors as she imagines they would have told them.

Nikolai's Fortune is a heartbreaking, multigenerational epic, chronicling family secrets and sufferings against the backdrop of Scandinavian history and culture. Blending memoir and historical fiction, grandmother, mother, and daughter each share their own story: Kaisa, of her mother¿s love for Nikolai and her own 500-mile trek at the age of twelve from impoverished Finland across the snowy mountains of Lapland; Berit, of child slavery and an obsession with seeking out her grandfather¿s fortune for her mother; and Hannah, the voice of Torvik, of her childhood during the Nazi occupation of Norway and her family¿s emigration to Idaho.

Through detailed historical research into census, church, and weather records, as well as academic and museum sources, Torvik recaptures a dramatic story nearly lost to memory and inherits something worth more than a fortune in riches ¿ a sense of her family history, ethnic background, and the generations of remarkable women who came before her.

Norwegian-born Solveig Torvik was a reporter, editor, and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for thirty years. She was also a reporter for United Press International in Salt Lake City and for the San Francisco Chronicle, and an editor at the San Jose Mercury News.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295992334
ISBN-10: 0295992336
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: , maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
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Recenzii

"A brooding, often beautiful tale of life in the Far North and the immigrant experience." Kirkus Reviews"The saga of countless families who survived starvation, ostracism and war to reach America." The Seattle Times“Solveig Torvik has provided readers with a rich, detailed and beautifully woven tale of a northern European family. Her writing is flawless.” Christine Ingebritsen, author of The Nordic States and European Unity

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Cuprins

Prologue
Book I. The Road of the Four Winds (Kaisa)
1. Meeting Nikolai
2. Marie's Past
3. Dreams of America
4. America Widows
5. Sisu
6. The Road to Lapland
7. The Alps of the North
8. Learning Norwegian
9. Courting
10. Signaldal
11. Anton
12. Homeless
13. The Birtavarre Mines
Book II. Under Otertind (Berit)
14. Loss
15. Aalesund
16. The Chosen People
17. Hanna
Book III. Soup from a Nail (Hanna)
18. Hamstring
19. Making Peace with Peace
20. America
21. Homecoming
Notes on Methodology
Acknowledgments


Descriere

A heartbreaking, multigenerational epic tale of mothers and daughters, chronicling family secrets and sufferings against the backdrop of Scandinavian history and culture