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Folkets skønhed
“The Beauty of the People” (title translated by AI)
Merete Pryds Helle (born 1965)
English editions
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Marie grows up on Langeland in the 1930s, in a home with many children, little money and everyday violence, and the war makes a poor community poorer still. Then Otto appears, an electrician's apprentice with clear blue eyes, and together they leave the island's poverty for the capital to build a better future. But Langeland comes with them, for better and worse. The author drew the family saga from her own family's history.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 428 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Denmark, from the 1930s
- First published
- 2016 by Lindhardt og Ringhof
- Author's age
- 51 when first published