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_aBackman, Sigrid, _d1886-1938 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aVindspel |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-04-06 | ||
| 508 | _aTuula Temonen and Johanna Kankaanpää | ||
| 520 | _a"Vindspel" by Sigrid Backman is a novel written in the early 20th century. This lyrical, nature-steeped tale follows the sensitive young Astri as she spends a summer with her mentor Helma at a secluded lakeside home, where solitude, art, and a visiting painter named Sven awaken feelings she struggles to name. The book explores the pull between city and countryside, innocence and desire, and a young woman’s inner life. The opening of Vindspel introduces the serene “white house” by the lake, where Helma welcomes her goddaughter Astri from the city. In long, sunlit scenes Astri revels in flowers, silence, and the moral clarity she seeks, confiding to Helma her private writings, her love of nature, and her unease with urban hardship and adult passion. A charming painter, Sven, arrives—first mistaken for a gardener—asking to paint the garden and then Astri herself; she resists, is fascinated, and after he plucks a treasured rose, impulsively kisses him before fleeing. Rumor and comedy ripple through the household (Kirkas’s shy courtship, Maja’s bluntness, a “stolen” chicken, talk of Sven’s odd night at the parsonage), while Astri wrestles with shame, truth, and attraction. In a warm rain, Sven returns, embraces her, and pleads for her to follow him; she answers softly that she belongs to the white house, and he begins to tell a dream, leaving their conflict between city and country, art and quiet, newly alive. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBorgå: Holger Schildts förlag, 1913 |
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| 653 | _aFinnish fiction (Swedish) -- 20th century | ||
| 653 | _aSwedish fiction -- Finnish authors -- 20th century | ||
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