The Last Letter Home by Vilhelm Moberg

The Last Letter Home portrays the family of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Years of toil have brought them a comfortable house and a thriving farm. Now they face a new terrible challenge as Minnesota struggles through two bloody conflicts - the Civil War and the Dakota War. The family remains steadfastly together through wartime turmoil and fears for the safety of loved ones. Kristina finally tastes the very first apple ripened on the tree grown from seed sent from her old home in Sweden. Like her family, the tree has taken root and thrived in the new land.

Paperback
230 pages
ISBN: 978-0-87351-322-7

About the author: Vilhelm Moberg, author of more than thirty novels, histories, and plays, is one of Sweden’s greatest writers of the twentieth century. Moberg’s most enduring works are his four Emigrant Novels, which portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for nineteenth-century Swedish pioneers in America.

Image description: The illustration on the cover has a brown-striped border around a crème-colored rectangle. At the top of that rectangle the author’s name is printed, with the title underneath. The subtitle is printed in white letters on a small red banner beneath that. Below that, the cover features a black-and-white illustration of a landscape with trees and fields.