My Mother Gets Married

by Moa Martinson

Book Overview

Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this novel is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Mia, as she observes her mother's relationship with her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband. Booklist calls the novel, "a poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John Steinbeck.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935312811
• ISBN13: 9780935312812
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Different View of Sweden

To pick up and read Moa Martinsons' book,My Mother Gets Married will enable the reader to see a different version of Sweden than they have received from ABBA, The Farmers Daughter or Ann Margaret. This is an intensely harsh view of rural Sweden. Written from the authors point of view as a child, one sees through her eyes social injustice, intense poverty and alchohalic breakdowns. There is a tender quality in the protagonist that draws the reader in and makes the book difficult to put down. The honesty of the author in viewing her difficult past puts the reader in her shoes (Which by the way, she doesn't always have) and walk the dusty road of her childhood. Her feelings are so intense that you worry about her when you close the book and need to open it again to make certain she is going to make to the next page.