Hanna's Daughters, or The Book That Was Almost There

I've finished reading Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson. I have to say, I agree with CelloBella. I'm rather unimpressed. I kept waiting for the story to take hold, to deepen and engage me, but it fell disappointingly flat. The sparse storytelling spanning three lives of the characters did not put much meat on the bones of the saga. I expected more detail and emotional revelations; the book seemed to skim the surface of decades of life far from ordinary. Perhaps, as CelloBella has mentioned, this novel lost its warmth in translation, or perhaps it is just a dish served cold. --Elle