Sign-In
Cart
The Brotherland
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.99
ISBN13: 9789190020432
Publisher: Aniara
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When retired harbor worker Karl meets magazine editor Bengta, neither expects to end up building a timber raft and floating down Sweden's legendary Klarälven River. But together, they embark on an extraordinary adventure into the heart of Sweden's wilderness.
What begins as a cultural study trip becomes a journey of rediscovery. Karl finds himself navigating not just Sweden's longest river but his own capacity for joy and friendship, while Bengta finds comfort in the local poetry and harbors secrets about why she can never return to Denmark.
As their timber raft carries them past Värmland's misty forests and rolling landscapes, Karl and Bengta become unlikely heroes when they suddenly find themselves in the middle of the veterans' festival, celebrating the bygone cultural history and ancient tradition of floating timber down the river.
The Brotherland is a heartwarming adventure about finding home in unexpected places, the courage it takes to start over, and why the best journeys are the ones that change you from the inside out. Sometimes the most extraordinary adventures happen at exactly the right time in life.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback