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Jerusalem

Author
Selma Lagerlof
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 59 minutes
ISBN
9781802566475
Published
29 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • spirituality
  • rural life
  • interconnected destinies
  • Swedish landscape
  • faith
  • love
  • redemption
  • mythical
  • human relationships
  • inner peace

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Description

In a Swedish farming village, a fierce religious awakening tears through family and land. Neighbours who once shared harvests now face a harder choice: stay with the soil, or sell everything and follow a call to Jerusalem itself. Lagerl?f follows intertwined lives through faith, love, doubt, and the cost of leaving home for a holy city far from Dalarna. A human epic of conviction and belonging, spoken as warm narrative with stakes you feel in the chest.

Author

Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) wrote as Sweden's great storyteller — a novelist who could make a province feel like a kingdom and a goose flight feel like an epic. Her Nobel Prize in 1909 recognised not just achievement but imagination: a literature of idealism, compassion, and wonder. From the defrocked cavaliers of Gösta Berling to Nils Holgersson soaring above the map of Sweden, her books teach through delight rather than lecture.

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