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Sweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three generations of Swedish women--a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter--whose lives are linked through a century of great love and great loss. Resonating with truth and revelation, this moving novel deftly explores the often difficult but enduring ties between mothers and daughters, the sacrifices, compromises, and rewards in the relationships between men and women, and the patterns of emotion that repeat themselves through generations. If you have ever wanted to connect with the past, or rediscover family, Hanna's Daughters will strike a chord in your heart. . . .

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"Brilliant . . . Hanna's Daughters outlines the lives of three generations of women and their complicated relationships with one another."
--USA Today

"I LOVED HANNA'S DAUGHTERS FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE, and I absolutely could not put it down. . . . Written with grace and wit, this novel deserves to be read, discussed, and cherished by future generations of mothers and daughters."
--JUDITH GUEST

Author of Ordinary People and Errands

"AN UPLIFTING FAMILY SAGA . . . Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex . . . chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and themselves. . . . Its message of reconciliation is transcendent."
--People

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Women's saga, Mai 21 2001

Par	Sharon Knutson "chinamomma" (St. Paul, MN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

Hanna's Daughters is a tale spanning three generation's of a Swedish family. It is told by Anna, who in a last ditch effort to understand her mother, gathers letter, diaries, and journals to read about her mother and grandmother's life.

The story is told through a series of flashbacks with can be disconcerting until you catch the rhythm of the story. The life of the three women revolves around mother-daughter relationships and the path our lives take as a result of the decisions we make.

Each woman struggles with similar heartbreaks (although they don't always know what the other one is/has gone through) They struggle with marriage, children, death, and finding ones self worth in a sometimes harsh world.

While I enjoyed the story (possibly due to my Swedish heritage!) I still felt the story plodded in some sections so I only gave it a three star rating.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Hey Stinky, Janv. 13 2001

Par	Stephanie Svanfeldt (Marin County, CA. USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

Funny how true the saying "Like mother like daughter" comes to life in this emotional and inspiring novel, Hanna's Daughters, by Marianne Fredriksson. Three generations of women are portrayed through family lives and a changing society. It is fascinating how the grandmother's lifestyle differed from the grandaughter's although still sharing a common thread. Love and loss, becoming strong though sacrifices, yielding to men and the hardships of running a household are constant themes.

The novel also focused on the many complexities facing the families. A few examples are abusive and alcoholic fathers and husbands and unfaithful fathers and husbands. I was impressed with the way the author structured the sequencing of stories around each of the women. She used past letters, dreams, and flashbacks to compare and to contrast the duaghter's lives. One that I enjoyed was about Broman and his love for his daughter, Johanna. I was able to parallel it back to Johanna's dream about going to the cave when she was a child. She was not cold because she was able to cuddle with her father. Such connections in the book made me eager to read on to uncover others.

Throughout the course of the book similarities between the women's lives began to appear. Hanna's mother, Hanna, Johanna, and her daughter Anna had the emotional bond of child loss. They experienced the heartbreak of children dying in famine, of suicide, abortion and infant death. Another commonality was the struggle of Hanna and Anna as single mothers after the divorce or death of their husbands.

Hanna's Daughters was an incredibly moving portrayal of the relationship between mothers and daughters, their love bond and the hardship that goes along with this love. There are the emotions of guilt and heartache that go hand in hand, even in a sometimes twisted and difficult bond that exists between mothers and daughters. Along with these heart wrenching experiences the author demonstrates how fulfilling a relationship between a mother and daughter can be.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Study in ancestral ties, Janv. 10 2001

Par	Suzanne Lombardo (Fairfield, CT United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

Many readers seemed to find Frederiksson's "feminism" heavy-handed, yet I've known many women who became trapped by motherhood and motherhood alone. I thought that Frederiksson handled the dilemma realistically. I also found the "out-of-body" tone of her characters quite in keeping with the events that shaped them. As time went on, Hanna's thoughts became more and more provincial and insignificant, which is precisely what was happening to her on the outside. I must say I found many poignant points in this story, chief among them the way threads between generations get broken and lost. How this family began in the craggy, lonely mountains and ended up very citified, losing all the "old ways" of doing things. Hanna personified this when, moved to the city, she realizes she is no longer "the miller's wife" or even "the whore." She is no one. I imagine that if we all look back over our ancestors, we'd find the same loss of connection to who we are and where we came from. I loved this book!

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Not always easy to follow, but worth the effort.
There's a lot going on in Hanna's Daughters, and there's a lot of ground covered, and there are a lot of characters (and the fact that some of them have identical names makes it... Read more

Publi� le Jui 12 2003 par Peggy Vincent

5.0�toiles sur 5 Hanna, Anna and Johanna
Hanna, Anna and Johanna is the tittle of Hanna's Daughters in its native Swedish, and I wonder why the tittle was changed in the English translation, the original is much more... Read more

Publi� le F�v 4 2002

2.0�toiles sur 5 Fragmented, disjointed POV as well as in its telling
Love generational, historical books that weave families and events. Unfortunately this one reads like a series of unconnected sentences with unrelated facts. Read more

Publi� le Oct. 28 2001

1.0�toiles sur 5 Point of View Changes
I was really looking forward to this book, but after three weeks I was only on page 188 and still couldn't figure out who was telling the story. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 14 2001