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First published: 1920
Pages: 309

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Sigfrid Siwertz follows the Selamb children from a bleak, loveless upbringing at the crumbling estate of Selambshof into the scramble of grown-up Stockholm. Peter, Hedvig, and their siblings each carry the coldness of that childhood into adulthood, and the novel traces how self-interest and the hunger for money harden into character. Written by a member of the Swedish Academy and first published in 1920 as Selambs, the book uses one family's rise to indict the profiteering and moral drift of a society grown rich on the First World War. It works at once as a family chronicle and as a sharp piece of social criticism.

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Sigfrid Siwertz

Sigfrid Siwertz (1882 to 1970) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and short story writer, elected to the Swedish Academy in 1932. A prolific author across several forms, he is remembered above all for Selambs, his novel of a materialistic Stockholm family.

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