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Streszczenie książki Uśmiech Moloka
- 8 min czytania
- 11 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
Two engaged lovers cannot find a single room, while a smiling director buys the houses they search.
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Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 3 h 45 min3 h fast, 4 h 30 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 54 100
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
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Uśmiech Moloka in short
Molok's Smile follows a single idea through a whole city. A homeless couple, a servant in a cellar, a family with an old name and a young man with cold ambition are all linked by one fact, that a home has become something to buy and sell. Stråvall rises by learning where the law is silent, and he wraps each deal in the language of social care.
What Uśmiech Moloka is about
What does it cost to own a roof over other people's heads? A young engineer and his fiancée search a crowded city for one home and cannot find it. Meanwhile a slight, smiling director with a cherry-pink face quietly buys the houses they search.
Molok's Smile is a Swedish social novel by Daniel Berg, set in a Stockholm short of homes in the years of the Spanish flu. Berg follows a rising property dealer, Adrian Stråvall, and the old noble family he hopes will lift him into society. You get a close portrait of ambition at work, and you see how a housing market becomes a trap, step by step, with the law looking on.
Dla kogo. This book suits readers who like social novels with a sharp eye for money and class, stories of cities and their homes, and characters who reveal themselves through small habits and calculations.
The story in 11 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A loving couple cannot find a home
The story opens with a happy family and a problem that money decides. Lecturer Tedelius lives on Sturegatan with his wife and six children. His daughter Hervor is engaged to Folke Hjelm, a young engineer. A year and a half go by and they still have nowhere to live.
Berg shows the search in small, painful steps. The couple climb dark back stairs and learn that a plain three-room flat costs four thousand kronor just to take over. Hervor queues with other young couples and goes home to cry into her cushions. Then Folke hears that a director named Stråvall may have apartments free.
Stråvall inspects Folke with a cold sneer and asks about his salary and his friends. A home here is a favor to be won. A decent, loving pair is held back by a market that sells shelter like any other goods.
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An old servant guards the cellar and the furnace
The second chapter moves to the street where Stråvall lives.
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Stråvall learns early to fear and to climb
Adrian Stråvall sits at his American desk, hiding a lady's portrait under a rolltop.
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A summer at Brinkeberga wakes a hunger for money
Gunnar and Stråvall travel to Stråvall's boyhood home at Brinkeberga, a villa near a marble works and a canal.
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Stråvall finds a mission and a secret ally
Back on the train, Stråvall decides that homes will soon be scarce goods and that housing is the vast field where fortunes lie.
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A modest house becomes a model for profit
Stråvall goes to work.
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Death opens the market and Gehnfeldt hunts
Chapter thirteen is the sharpest in the book.
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A flower, a debt and a growing fear
Stråvall is sick with uncertainty.
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A home becomes goods and the cost is human
Berg's central claim is that when a home becomes merchandise, the weak pay in lives.
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Appearances, class and caution rule every move
The second theme is the war between appearance and truth.
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Voices, symbols and the furnace behind the story
Berg writes in the third person and moves freely between minds.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Adrian Stråvall A cautious, smiling property dealer who wants wealth and a place among the Wiepes, and who trusts only what he can count.
- Folke Hjelm A strong, honest young engineer who wants a home for his fiancée and grows to despise the men who sell homes.
- Hervor Tedelius Folke's loving fiancée, daughter of a lecturer, who searches every morning for an apartment that would let them marry.
- Harriet Wiepe A principled baroness's daughter who runs charities, wears glasses and trusts Stråvall's social idealism.
- Ingrid Wiepe Harriet's passionate sister, a painter who longs for a perfect love and distrusts Stråvall from the start.
- Gunnar Wiepe An easygoing baron, Stråvall's friend, who lives on a small family income and borrows to send his sister abroad.
- K. G:son Gehnfeldt A loud, lavish landowner and Stråvall's partner, who trades in anything and sets his sights on Ingrid.
- Tilda An old servant who tends the furnace below the house and fears being sent to an old-age home.
How it ends (spoiler)
Stråvall learns that Miss Wagner has delivered the torn promissory notes to Baron Wiepe's office and collected the money. Hervor dies after taking an extremely dangerous medicine, and Folke nearly dies himself. Stråvall slips away to Norway with Miss Wagner, whom he later marries on poor terms, while Harriet dies of the epidemic and Gunnar survives. Tilda remains behind tending the furnace, while Stråvall's absence leaves his tenants' homes in disarray. Folke and Ingrid finally meet in Riddarholm Church, and after a parting touched by fire, they know they will not part again.
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Pytania o Uśmiech Moloka
What is Molok's Smile about?
It follows property dealer Adrian Stråvall as he buys and sells homes in a city short of housing. Around him are the engaged couple Hervor and Folke, the aristocratic Wiepe family and the landowner Gehnfeldt, whose dealings shape their lives.
Who is Molok in the novel?
Molok is the old god who demanded child sacrifice. In the book the name stands for a greed that devours people, especially the young and those without a roof, and Folke applies it to the men who profit from homes.
When is Molok's Smile set and what is the housing background?
The story is set in Stockholm during the years of the Spanish flu, when apartments were scarce and rents were controlled. Many scenes show the real practices of the time, such as key money, housing associations and strained landlord laws.
Who is Adrian Stråvall?
Stråvall is a slight, careful man raised by a fearful mother and an old servant, Tilda. He befriends the baron Gunnar Wiepe, learns the housing trade and aims to become both rich and respectable.
Is Molok's Smile easy to follow?
Yes, the chapters are short and move between homes, offices and streets, with lively dialogue and clear scenes. Characters such as Tilda, Miss Wagner and Gehnfeldt are vivid, so the story is easy to follow by ear.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Berg, Daniel. Molok's Smile. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/moloks-smile.
Berg, D. (2026). Molok's smile. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/moloks-smile
Berg, Daniel. Molok's Smile. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/moloks-smile.
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