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Flowering Nettle ((スウェーデン語:Nässlorna blomma)) is a partly autobiographical novel written by the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1935 and first translated into English by Naomi Walford in 1936.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.swedishbookreview.com/article-2004-1-vinde.asp ) Article by Ann-Marie Vinde, Swedish Book Review, issue 2004:1〕 The book tells the story of the orphan child Martin, who is Harry Martinson's alter ego and is written from the perspective of the child. Martin's father dies and his mother leaves her children for a new life in California. Everything he holds dear disappear at a very early age and he grows up working in several farms and being sent away or going himself away, as he faces the harsh working life of the farmhand. Martin is described as a selfish, stupid, childish, selfpitying, obsequious, coward and false. Thus, there is no idealisation of the child.〔Peterzén, Ingvar: Nässlorna Blomma, Bonniers Svenska bokförlaget, Stockholm 1962〕 The language in the novel has been described as knowingly childlike.〔 ''Flowering Nettle'' and its continuation ''The way out'' are partly autobiographical and show the hard und unsafe existence of an orphan child in the poor Sweden of the beginning of the 20th century. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flowering Nettle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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