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Job's book set in the North of Sweden, with many elements of folk tales as well as Lutheran genuine faith of gentry and peasants of the abandoned landscape, and the ever present Satan is as real as the Drunkards of the pivotal mansion of Ekeby. I love this book. Selma lagerlof was awarded the Nobel prize in literature - rumor has it that she -being unmarried - nonetheless wasn't allowed to get her Nobel dinner plate until the married women had been served... Probably a myth, but it cracks me up
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