The story of Rönnog. About the happiness of being in love and the misfortune of being born a woman. About the quest to feel entitled, about passion, shame, prohibitions and admonitions - where resistance becomes the very essence, the source of power; anger the root of life.
"She is a natural disaster - barely covered with human skin"
The novel Lifsens rot, written by Sara Lidman about her mother, is nothing more than an act of love - a reconciliation, but not an embellishment. We follow Rönnog through her upbringing as a mother and matriarch in a settler district in Västerbotten. She leaves her job as a dairymaid to marry Isak Mårten Mårtensson, a smallholder. Love triumphs over the fear of poverty but; it has met a worthy opponent!
ENG:
Sara Lidman is one of the region's three literary giants and Sara's cultural center is named after her. Lifsens rot is the story of Rönnog, Sara Lidman's mother and how the love she experiences when she meets Isak not only conquers the poverty surrounding her, but also her own doubting heart.
