City of My Dreams

By Per Anders Fogelström. Translated by Jennifer Brown Bäverstam. This book is the first in the five-volume Stockholm Series. A masterpiece of historical realism, this sweeping narrative creates unforgettable characters and gives a cross-section of life in nineteenth-century Stockholm. "City of My Dreams" broke the record for bestsellers in Sweden. Fogelström, who was born in 1917, is greatly respected as a chronicler of his people.

This remarkable book tells the tale of Henning Nilsson and his family, a family whose origins and growth in the underclass of nineteenth-century Stockholm mirror the growth of Stockholm itself into a modern European metropolis. Beginning with the arrival in the city of the fifteen-year-old Henning, barefoot and penniless, on the eve of the industrial revolution, it continues with the story of his impassioned struggle for a fully human life. Powerfully written, City of My Dreams, sweeps the reader along in a historic saga of fortune and love in a society experiencing great social and political upheaval.

Ingmar Bergman made one of his earlier novels into a movie, "Summer with Monika." A statue to him can be found at the entrance to the hall where the Nobel prizes are awarded.

The Stockholm Series:
City of My Dreams
Children of Their City
Remember the City
In a City Transformed
City in the World
Perfect-bound, 6 x 9", 332 pages.