The Last Letter Home | |
Title Orig: | Sista brevet till Sverige |
Translator: | Gustaf Lannestock |
Author: | Vilhelm Moberg |
Country: | Sweden |
Language: | Swedish |
Series: | The Emigrants |
Genre: | Historical novel |
Publisher: | Bonniers (Swedish edition) |
Pub Date: | 1959 |
English Pub Date: | 1961 |
Media Type: | |
Pages: | 311 pp (Swedish edition) |
Isbn: | 0-87351-322-3 |
Dewey: | 839.73/72 20 |
Congress: | PT9875.M5 S513 1995 |
Oclc: | 32346926 |
Preceded By: | The Settlers |
Followed By: | None |
The Last Letter Home (Swedish: Sista brevet till Sverige) is a 1959 historical novel by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg. It is the fourth and final novel of his The Emigrants series. It is the shortest book of the four and has a faster pace.
This novel tells about Karl-Oskar and Kristina Nilson in their later lives, through their deaths. The novel has a slightly more reflective perspective than the other three. It is set against such events as The American Civil War and the Sioux Outbreak of 1862 through the perspective of the settlers.