The Legend of the Sacred Image — Selma Lagerlof

Selma Lagerlof won the Nobel Prize in 1909, and was the first woman to do so, and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages. Her novels usually describe her homeland of Sweden, but in The Legend of the Sacred Image the focus is on a story about a vision of Mary and Christ in Palermo.