After returning to Sweden, ill with tuberculosis and destitute, he came under the care of his future wife, Moa Swartz, who became a well-known author in her own right. He ran away from his foster parents and went to sea from 1920 to 1927. When he was six his father died and then his mother immigrated to America, leaving him and his sisters as parish orphans, fostered out to various families. Harry Martinson was born in Jämshög, Sweden on May 6, 1904. This volume is the first complete English language version and received the prestigious American Scandinavian Foundation Award. It has been translated into seven languages and adapted into a popular avant-garde opera. Aniara is a book of prophecy, a panoramic view of humanity's possible fate. A malfunction knocks the craft off course, taking these would-be Mars colonists on an irreversible journey into deep space.
Aniara is the story of a luxurious space ship, loaded with 8,000 evacuees, fleeing an Earth made uninhabitable by Man's technological arrogance. The great Swedish writer Harry Martinson published his masterpiece, Aniara, during the height of the Cold War - right after the Soviet Union announced that it had exploded the hydrogen bomb. Aniara is the story of a luxurious space ship, loaded with.
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