Presented By: Germanic Languages & Literatures
Chicago Dreams – The Story About a Young Immigrant
Book talk with Swedish author Maria Bouroncle - 2024 Signe Karlström Lecture
Chicago Dreams: The Story of a Young Immigrant unfolds the journey of twenty-three-year-old Elsa who is dreaming about a new life in America. A life where women are permitted to be independent and free. In September 1921, she boards the steamship Drottningholm in the Swedish port of Gothenburg with twenty five dollars in her pocket...
An economist by profession, Maria Bouroncle, who spent 25 years in the field of international development, published her first novel in 2018. It Came to Me on a Whim – The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess has been translated into several languages. The independent sequel, The Girl with a Name Tag – A Finnish War Child in Sweden was published in Swedish in 2022, and the last part of Bouroncle’s historic trilogy about young women taking place in the early 20th century, Chicago Dreams – The Story of a Young Immigrant, was published in 2024.
An economist by profession, Maria Bouroncle, who spent 25 years in the field of international development, published her first novel in 2018. It Came to Me on a Whim – The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess has been translated into several languages. The independent sequel, The Girl with a Name Tag – A Finnish War Child in Sweden was published in Swedish in 2022, and the last part of Bouroncle’s historic trilogy about young women taking place in the early 20th century, Chicago Dreams – The Story of a Young Immigrant, was published in 2024.
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