Pelle and his ageing father Lasse arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm as Swedish immigrant labourers on a great farm. The boy grows through a hard childhood, a shoemaker’s apprenticeship and a struggle for work in Copenhagen, where he becomes a leader of the labour movement, in all four parts of the novel.
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