Unto a Good Land
1952 novel by Vilhelm Moberg
0-87351-320-7Dewey Decimal
Unto a Good Land (Swedish: Invandrarna, 1952) is a Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg. It is the second of his four-novel The Emigrants series.
It was translated into English in 1954, and also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, this was adapted as a film The Emigrants (1971), directed by Jan Troell. A sequel based on the third and fourth novels was released in 1972.
Plot
This novel describes the journey of the Swedish Nilsson family (from The Emigrants) from New York City, New York, where they had landed, to Taylors Falls, Minnesota. With homesteading land available, they settle at the lake Ki-Chi-Saga (now Lake Chisago) in what was then Minnesota Territory. Today this area is Chisago County of the state of Minnesota.) There the Nilssons started building a dwelling and structures for a farm.
Robert, Karl-Oskar's younger brother, takes off for California with his friend Arvid to join the search for gold, as the Gold Rush is still on.
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Vilhelm Moberg
- Raskens (1927)
- Ride This Night (1941)
- The Emigrants (1949)
- Unto a Good Land (1952)
- The Settlers (1956)
- The Last Letter Home (1959)
- A Time on Earth (1963)
- Dramatist Studio of Sweden
- The Emigrants (novel series)
- Haijby scandal
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