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Barbara Sjoholm

    January 1, 1950

    This author navigates diverse genres, from memoir to compelling mysteries and travel essays. Her work often delves into intricate themes like women and the sea, as well as the culture and landscapes of Lapland and the Sami people. A translator and writer, she is fascinated by bridging cultures and languages, with a style often described as exploratory and insightful. Readers will appreciate her ability to bring distant worlds and characters to life with remarkable depth and empathy.

    Ein Abend mit Vivaldi
    Äpfel und Apfelsinen
    Träum ich von Familie
    Gaudí afternoon
    Ambitious Women
    From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
    • "The story of the Indigenous S?mi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. Deftly written and amply illustrated, From Lapland to S?pmi brings to light the history of collecting, displaying, and returning S?mi material culture, as well as the story of S?mi creativity and individual and collective agency"-- Provided by publisher

      From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
      4.4
    • Ambitious Women

      • 228 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Book by Wilson, Barbara

      Ambitious Women
      4.5
    • Cassandra Reilly is a footloose Irish-American based in London, who is currently in the midst of translating a magic realism novel about thesearch for a lost mother. When she gets an offer from a San Franciscan femme fatale to look for her husband in Barcelona, Cassandra can't resist--and she chases people of all genders in thish highspirited comic thriller.

      Gaudí afternoon
      3.3