Girl on Heaven's pier : a novel /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Victoria, TX :
Dalkey Archive Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Dalkey Archive edition. |
| Series: | Finnish literature series.
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Finnish as Tytto taivaan laiturilla by W. Söderström (Porvoo, 1951). "Originally published in 1951, this novel tells of a young girl living with her deeply religious grandparents in pre-war Vyborg -- before it became part of the Soviet Union. Leena hates school, loves music and rain, and wanders through the town in a state of childish enchantment. "Like a spruce cone, a child falls into a world where logical disorder replaces magical order, and there you are -- in trouble, we'll agree." The world she inhabits features multiple layers of reality, and this is reflected in the novel's artful narrative: life and death are reflections of each other, and reality is merely a map of the individual's inner world. Through the naive perspective of a young girl, the book addresses deep philosophical concerns in simple, lucid prose" -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 147 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781628971385 162897138X |