The Emigrants by Johan Bojer

Bojer's novel of Norwegian emigration in the 1880s tells of young villagers who, faced with a rigid class structure, political oppression, and dismal agricultural opportunities, willingly 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.

Softcover, 351 pp.

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