The saga of Yesta Berling

One of the most famous works of the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf - the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
The publication is supplemented by a foreword by Yulia Yurchuk, a historian and translator who teaches intellectual history at Södertorn University (Sweden) and specializes in transnational intellectual history, memory studies, and religious history
Translated by one of the best Ukrainian translators, Olga Senyuk, an active participant in the sixties movement, a translator from English and Scandinavian languages, the wife of Yevhen Popovych
The novel by the Swedish writer, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Selma Lagerlöf, "The Saga of Yesta Berling", written in the genre of magical realism, is considered one of the most whimsical and at the same time the most beloved works of Scandinavia. Against the background of the winter beauty of Sweden, the story of Yesta Berling unfolds - a homeless man, a beggar and a priest, stripped of his rank for drunkenness, saved from death by his own audacity, penchant for adventure and one chance meeting.