by Marianne Fredriksson · Ballantine Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780345426642
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«Hanna's Daughters» is the family saga novel by Marianne Fredriksson, published by Ballantine Books in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
Anna, Johanna and Hanna are three generations of a Swedish family. With her mother ill, Anna tries to reconcile with the past and reconstructs the family history through letters, diaries and photographs: from Hanna's rural life to Johanna's rebellious youth, in a story about mothers and daughters marked by war and women's new role.
The work was originally published in Swedish in 1994 under the title «Anna, Hanna och Johanna». This English edition received the Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek in 1998.
For readers interested in Scandinavian fiction and stories of family reconciliation.
Marianne Fredriksson was a Swedish author who worked and lived in Roslagen and Stockholm. Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist for various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.
