Moberg intended his characters to serve as symbolic representations of the various reasons that compelled Swedes to.
These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College.īook 1 introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and eleven others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Småland in 1850. The Emigrants, the first of Moberg’s tetralogy about Swedish emigration to the United States during the mid-nineteenth century, is the story of a group of people from the province of Smaland who made the decision to emigrate. First published between 19 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life.
His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America.
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