Jerusalem (Annotated)

Selma Lagerlöf's Jerusalem is a richly layered novel of faith, exile, and communal upheaval, centered on Swedish farming families in Dalecarlia who are drawn by religious conviction to join a utopian Christian colony in the Holy Land. Written in a style that unites social realism with saga-like breadth, the work situates intimate rural lives within biblical and epic resonances. Lagerlöf's prose is...