A Time On Earth Author:Vilhelm Moberg It is October of 1962 and Albert Carlson, a 64-year-old Swedish immigrant, is coming to terms with his life. Living alone and lonely in a hotel room in southern California, he thinks back over his life: over his loss of faith in God, his failed relationship with his parents, his two failed marriages, his failed relationship with his sons, and hi... more »s failed businesses. Remembering constantly his older brother Sigfrid, who died tragically at the age of eighteen, he seeks only one thing anymore--peace.« less