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Severed Ties and Silenced VoicesOn a November day in 1872, the Swedish immigrant Lars Johnson left his Minnesota farm and walked out into the early morning chill. He was never seen alive again. The mysterious nature of his death suggested intriguing questions about Lars Johnson himself and the history of Swedish commoners at home and abroad. What led them to abandon their homeland? What were they searching for in America? To what extent did they preserve Old World customs in the

The novel is also an anti- or non-ethnography in a sense

Produced by the Music Line Choir at Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola (SVF) in Jönköping

this novel won the Saami Council Prize for Literature

and their nearest neighbor and his family

University of Akureyri

Edited by Charles Peterson and Joan Zetterlund

What led them to abandon their homeland

the University of Texas

The mysterious nature of his death suggested intriguing questions about Lars Johnson himself and the history of Swedish commoners at home and abroad

The Suffering of Human Being

Translated by Thomas A

a young social scientist who works for a newspaper in Oslo