Nikolai's Fortune
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Date of Publication 27 November 2012
- ISBN 9780295992334
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 489 g
- Language English 0
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As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik's great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. As a reporter, Torvik determined to discover the fate of the man who followed his dreams to Oregon. She uncovered not only the story of one man, but also the saga of an entire family. In Nikolai's Fortune, a tale of Scandinavian women, the journalist turns fact into fiction and shares the tales of her ancestors as she imagines they would have told them.
Nikolai's Fortune is a heartbreaking, multigenerational epic, chronicling family secrets and sufferings against the backdrop of Scandinavian history and culture. Blending memoir and historical fiction, grandmother, mother, and daughter each share their own story: Kaisa, of her mother's love for Nikolai and her own 500-mile trek at the age of twelve from impoverished Finland across the snowy mountains of Lapland; Berit, of child slavery and an obsession with seeking out her grandfather's fortune for her mother; and Hannah, the voice of Torvik, of her childhood during the Nazi occupation of Norway and her family's emigration to Idaho.
Through detailed historical research into census, church, and weather records, as well as academic and museum sources, Torvik recaptures a dramatic story nearly lost to memory and inherits something worth more than a fortune in riches – a sense of her family history, ethnic background, and the generations of remarkable women who came before her.
Norwegian-born Solveig Torvik was a reporter, editor, and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for thirty years. She was also a reporter for United Press International in Salt Lake City and for the San Francisco Chronicle, and an editor at the San Jose Mercury News.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Book I. The Road of the Four Winds (Kaisa)
1. Meeting Nikolai
2. Marie's Past
3. Dreams of America
4. America Widows
5. Sisu
6. The Road to Lapland
7. The Alps of the North
8. Learning Norwegian
9. Courting
10. Signaldal
11. Anton
12. Homeless
13. The Birtavarre Mines
Book II. Under Otertind (Berit)
14. Loss
15. Aalesund
16. The Chosen People
17. Hanna
Book III. Soup from a Nail (Hanna)
18. Hamstring
19. Making Peace with Peace
20. America
21. Homecoming
Notes on Methodology
Acknowledgments
