The Emigrants, by Vilhelm Moberg

Another suggestion from a Swedish friend, he told me Vilhelm Moberg's saga about emigration was good to understand Sweden. Anyway, it's an excellent book; I'd like to be able to read it in Swedish, somehow there is a tone that sounds very characteristic, the same kind of singsong one hears in Swedish films and that I also felt when I read a book by Knut Hamsun. And if these peasants are representative of the Swedish character, what stands out it's its seriousness, honesty and resilience, and also a certain gloom.

I already ordered the other three books of the saga.