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Series: Stadsserien (City Series) #5 Author: Per Anders Fogelström ISBN10: 9100560049 Pages: 305 Published: 1968 Characters: Emelie Nilsson, Gunnar Karlsson, Jenny Nilsson, Henning Nilsson d.y., Maj Nilsson setting: Stockholm

Description: As soon as I put Stad i världen down, I felt like picking Mina drömmars stad up and start all over again. This series is such a well written, well researched, outstanding collection of books. I find myself grateful and privileged to live in the times I do, and proud of how far we as a society has come. While our times are not without woes, the first two books of this series is the ultimate cure for today’s widespread disappointment from high expectations. This final book deals with the conclusion and end of several lives, most notably Emilie, whom we’ve followed from the cradle to the grave. As the only character present in all the books, she presents herself as the series uniting force. Although childless, she becomes the centre of not only her own family, but also the descendants of her former housemate Bärta. Fogelström portrays all aspects of what a good life means. He presents the outcome and consequences of different life choices and destinies, without judgment. In fact he often hints that material wealth, successful careers and playing by the rules not necessarily equals happiness. The character David Berg, who is a layabout drunk, unable to hold down any kind of job, who neglected his children, often comes off as the most content person of the story. Although unsympathetic and loyal to only himself, he expects nothing of life or others. While sometimes regretful about his wrong doings, he did what he felt necessary, and only wants a café to dwell in and the occasional binge. This in contrast to Elisabet, the daughter of Jenny, who despite working herself up to lower middle-class, educated, well-read, materially well off, with a loving and very understanding husband, seems utterly unable to enjoy it. She constantly feels she’s being mistreated and discriminated. Often, like David, only loyal to herself and only aware of her own needs and wants – unable to distinguish between needs and wants, identifying everything as needs.

The series is full of complex characters and relationships, often highlighting our collective habit of justifying our choices by looking down on and degrade the choices of others. But also how we tend to idolize the life of those we perceive as successful, neglecting its drawbacks and their sacrifices to achieve it. One more historical aspect, which was more or less contemporary when the book was written, is the construction of the self-contained high-rise suburbs around Stockholm during the 1950s and 60s. While many politicians of the time believed this to be the future, and it must have felt very modern back then, I sense Fogelström was no fan. The only character that seems to think the suburbs are a good idea is Erik Karge, who is a very idealistic left-wing politician, as it happens. To show the social change and reform, Fogelström is almost patronisingly obvious in the stories two Hennings. Henning the elder arrives in Stockholm with nothing in the 1860s. He lives large parts of his life in appalling quarters. Starvation and malnourishment is always present. He is uneducated, can barely read, and after his arrival he never leaves the city. He dies far too young, after wearing his body down working the docks. A hundred years later, his great-grandson Henning the younger is an educated man, a journalist. He has travelled all over post-war Europe as a reporter. He has everything he needs and has never had to starve once in his life. An almost unbelievable difference.