The novel is based on the real-life events of 1896, when a group of Swedish pilgrims left their country to establish a new settlement in Jerusalem. In 1899, Selma Lagerlöf traveled to the Jerusalem colony to see how her compatriots were living. She also visited their homeland and met with their relatives and friends who had remained in Sweden. Based on her journey, Lagerlöf wrote the novel, which significantly contributed to her being awarded the Nobel Prize.
Leave or stay? Join the majority, whose values have remained unchanged for centuries, or go your own way? Betray, or lose everything? These difficult questions confront the characters in Selma Lagerlöf's epic novel "Jerusalem," written at the turn of the 20th century. It is evident that today this famous novel of consolation has taken on a new symbolic resonance. Good old Sweden on the eve of great upheavals. In one of the beautiful parishes of Dalarna province, a strange yet extraordinarily charismatic man appears, promising to show the peasants the path to a righteous life. This path leads to Jerusalem. Wealthy and respected people leave their homes and loved ones, not for a comfortable life in America as was the custom at the time, but in search of the truth.
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Translator: Sergey Shtern
Pages: 688 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 207x135x41 mm
