Tales from Two Hemispheres

Stories from Norway and from the American Midwest, and about the crossing between them: an emigrant who cannot go home, a Norwegian girl in a Minnesota winter, a boy on a fjord. Boyesen left Norway at twenty-one, was taken up by Howells at the Atlantic and became professor of Germanic languages at Columbia; he wrote the immigrant's double vision before it had a name. Sixty plates by painters including Johan Christian Dahl and Edvard Munch follow the boats, fjords and crossings that carry these stories between Norway and America.