A wonderful journey through Sweden and the life of Selma Lagerlöf, who gave the world the character of Nils Holgersson
The first novel about Selma Lagerlöf also addresses the rather unknown sides of the famous Swedish author.
Selma Lagerlöf with all her doubts and colourful dreams is made tangible by Charlotte von Feyerabend in her grand novel. The readers are with Selma when out of financial necessity her home is sold and again when she meets her partner and travel companion Sophie Elkan, with whom she would not only travel to Jerusalem but also through Sweden to conduct research for Nils Holgersson. She constantly broke with conventions and in doing so achieved great things. At the same time, she was filled with an inexhaustible belief in herself. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and be a member of the Swedish Academy, yet she lived in a love-triangle that sometimes drained her strength. With the profits from her book sales, she bought back her old home and lived the dream that her father had been unable to achieve: that of a landowner. And with her big heart she shared her hard-won happiness.
Charlotte von Feyerabend lets the original texts by Selma Lagerlöf flow into this novel and captures her poetic language to take the reader on a journey through Sweden with her strong, fascinating and humorous personality. The belief in self not only moves mountains but it also creates them and sometimes even conquers the mountain...
