"Fleeing from hunger, two young brothers are sent from rural Sweden to seek their fortune in New York in the early 1850s. But in the middle of their long journey they are separated and the younger boy, Hakan, finds himself alone on a ship bound for...
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Universität des Saarlandes, Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen, Bibliothek
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"Fleeing from hunger, two young brothers are sent from rural Sweden to seek their fortune in New York in the early 1850s. But in the middle of their long journey they are separated and the younger boy, Hakan, finds himself alone on a ship bound for California. Hakan speaks no English and has no money but, determined to find his brother Linus, he decides to cross America in search of him. The boy, almost immediately, becomes a man: the man, who never stops growing, becomes a giant; the giant, despite himself, becomes an outlaw and a legend, known simply as 'the Hawk'. Travelling on foot through empty and unclaimed expanses, Hakan is driven back west over and over again. Moving against the tide of history, he experiences the Gold Rush and its effects, encounters capitalists and colonialists, explorers and early sicentists, and witnesses the formation of America and the betrayal of its dream"--Back cover
