Women and Appletrees

by Moa Martinson

Book Overview

This autobiographical first novel of working-class life by Moa Martinson, the "Agnes Smedley of Sweden," follows two young women, both victims of sexual abuse, as they become friends and determine to gain for themselves and their children the rights and oppportunities usually denied women, and especially poor women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935312382
• ISBN13: 9780935312386
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional story of both rural & urban European underclass

Women and Appletrees is the translation of a novel by a Swedish woman writer. It is a marvelous and absorbing collection of descriptive writing about the human experience. This is a working class novel set in a time period when women had no reproductive options and little say in setting the course of their own lives. These individuals experience poverty, hardship, illiteracy, bad sanitation and the desperation of unmarried and too-fertile motherhood, both urban and rural. This is a captivating story about human survival, the perils of marriage, and finally, friendship. Adult themes throughout. NOT a children's book.