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Three teenagers are followed from Königsberg in 1935, where Nazi persecution steadily wrecks their lives. Through study and heated debate about Zionism they cling to a brittle hope, and in summer 1939 they are among sixty young German Jews sent to a farm outside Falun to learn farming before moving on to a kibbutz in Palestine. When war comes, they cannot leave Sweden. On the collective farm, ideals collide with reality, and accident ends up shaping their futures, as they struggle to keep faith alive in exile.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

258 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, Sweden, 1935–1940s

First published

2020 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

78 when first published

ISBN

9789100185268 (original)