Free Download Johannes Wist, "The Rise of Jonas Olsen: A Norwegian Immigrant's Saga"
English | 2005 | pages: 469 | ISBN: 081664750X | PDF | 85,8 mb
The road to riches for the hero of this sweeping historical novel ends up being rockier than he initially expects. Norwegian immigrant Jonas Olsen arrives in late nineteenth-century Minneapolis with little money and less English. He quickly learns to reinvent himself-from laboring in sewer construction to building a successful dry goods business, from losing everything in a banking collapse to settling the Red River Valley. While an eminently likable character, Jonas can also be ruthless in his ambition to find success in America.