Emperor of Portugal - Selma Lagerlof

Section: translated novels

Number of pages: 294 pages

Publisher: Sameh Publishing House

The novel is set in Selma Lagerlöf's home province of Värmland, near the border with Norway, around the middle of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the farmer Jan Anderson, who lives on an estate - he will never get tired or tired of talking about that day when his little daughter came to - «Scrollica and whom he loves more than anything else in the universe. This world, when Yan embraced his newborn daughter for the first time, he felt something beating in his chest, then he discovered that there was a heart in his chest that he had not felt before. That heart was suddenly filled with feelings of fatherhood and overwhelming love for his daughter. It is the love that turned his life and the life of his family upside down. After effort and hardship, the child was named Clara Gula, and she grew up in the care of her parents and under the sight and hearing of her father until she became a beautiful, intelligent and strong young woman. But her fate and the fate of her parents suddenly took a tragic turn after she left her parents' hut and her rural environment, and traveled to the capital Stockholm in order to work and collect some money to pay off her parents' debt.

The novel revolves around paternal love, anguish, loss, long and arduous waiting, and the struggle of the peasants and the poor in the Swedish countryside at that time. It is distinguished by its richness in the striking description of people and the Swedish nature. In a unique style, Selma Lagerlof excelled