Snowdrop Waltz: Historic Novel

The novel Snowdrop Waltz is a warm defense of poor people in Stavanger in the 1870s.

"I've wanted to describe life stories, struggling young people with an unbending will to live. Just as snowdrops break their way through the snow," says author Dag Gustav Gundersen.

The latter half of the nineteenth century is also a particularly interesting period. The emergence of modern Norway began. And in Stavanger, everything peaked because the economy and living conditions fluctuated far more here th...