De bedste familier

In 1953 Cheminova moves its factory from Zealand to West Jutland, and the engineer Jørn and his wife Karin begin a new life in the small town of Lemvig. For local workers the plant is rescue from a life of toil, and the town quickly feels the lift in wages and welfare. The price is high: workers are poisoned again and again and chemical waste runs straight into the sea, but nobody says so aloud for fear the factory will leave. Following two families, the novel traces the passage from the post-war years to the modern welfare state, men's grand plans and women who refuse simply to follow, and how people can lose a great deal in the very progress they help to make.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

568 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, from 1953

First published

2023 by Gutkind

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9788743403258 (original)