Lit in Translation

Anu Kaipainen

Born 1933 · Finland

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Books on prize lists

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    Finlandia 2002 · Shortlist

    Granaattiomena

    Title translated by AI:“Pomegranate”

    Anu Kaipainen · 69 when first published

    Novel · 469 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:A 68-year-old writer sends her reclusive gay son, past thirty, on a trip to Rome and uses the respite to revisit his childhood, asking whether she was too dominant a mother.