Witches' Rings av Kerstin Ekman

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<p><span>"Stories," the narrator of </span><em>Witches'' Rings </em><span>tells us, "are wiser than we, and more mindful, and slowly they change us." Kerstin Ekman''s stories are deeply committed to this very kind of gradual but inevitable change. </span><em>Witches'' Rings </em><span>portrays the history of a rural society in a new light, tracing its development through the lives of working class women and children rather than authorities and decision-makers. The central character is a woman so anonymous that her name is not even mentioned on her gravestone. This novel, written in 1974, is the first volume of a tetralogy which follows a Swedish community through a hundred years of recent history to the present day. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Kerstin Ekman (b. 1933) has often