The Grapes of Wrath + The Lover + The City of My Dreams + The Serious Game

Item no. CA649130211

The Grapes of Wrath: 1930s and the Great Depression in the USA. When Tom Joad returns after four years in prison, he finds that his family has been evicted from their farm. The hard times force the family to pack everything they own into their rickety car and head to California. They have been lured there by promises of jobs in cotton fields and peach orchards, but the dream of a better life exists only in the advertisements. The West Coast is flooded with poor families seeking work, and greedy employers ruthlessly exploit their vulnerable situation. The burdens of poverty weigh heavily on the family, but in the end, it is solidarity and loyalty that matter most. The Lover: Let me also say, I am fifteen and a half years old. It is on a ferry across the Mekong River. Thus begins Marguerite Duras's stark and suggestive tale of the passionate love affair between the fifteen-year-old French girl and her Chinese lover. On the ferry across the Mekong River, the girl meets a young Chinese man from the wealthy upper class, and she continues the journey in his limousine. This marks the beginning of a relationship, consuming in its erotic heat and intensity but simultaneously doomed to be suffocated by strict traditions and racial prejudices. Every day, the lover's chauffeur waits for her outside the school to drive her to a bachelor apartment in Saigon where they can indulge in the love that society condemns: his father has other plans for him, and her family belongs to the colonial class. The City of My Dreams: One summer evening in 1860, Henning walks into the city he has dreamed of. It is the time of great transformation: industries are emerging and new opportunities are opening up - for work, bread, and happiness. But for most, Stockholm is a dark and poor city, and Henning has to work hard. Hardship is never far away when he, together with Lotten, the girl he marries, seeks to create a bright existence. The City of My Dreams is the first book in Per Anders Fogelström's beloved novel series. The Serious Game: "You can love me in a pagan way!" says Lydia Stille to Arvid Stjärnblom. Once she was the innocent girl he had kissed behind the lilac bushes. Now she is married, just like him, but when chance brings them together after ten years, their feelings for each other flare up. And now she is a mature, independent woman who dares to embrace the demands of passion, with consequences that he can only begin to sense. The Serious Game is a novel about love, about illusion and resignation, while echoing the world events of idyllic early 20th century Stockholm.

Prices are shown excluding VAT

The Grapes of Wrath + The Lover + The City of My Dreams + The Serious Game · SEK 452SEK 452Request a quote