The Emperor of Portugallia
Selma Lagerlöf, 1914
A poor crofter tells his village that his daughter has become an empress, and half believes it. A novel about the dignity love invents when it can't afford the truth.
Selma Lagerlöf
1858–1940
Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909, and the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy, in 1914.
Feels like family, tenderness and love.
The night before a child leaves, a father rehearses the loss.
Jan moved quietly away from the door, where he had been standing a moment, listening, and sat down on the step. He never thought for an instant that Glory Goldie would remain at home. Indeed he knew better than did anyone else that she must go away. All the same it was to him as if the soft little bundle had again been laid in his arms. His heart had been set going once more. Now it was beating away in his breast as if trying to make up for lost time. With that he felt that his armour of defence was gone. Books by Selma Lagerlöf
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