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Bo Carpelan

Born 1926 · Finland

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    Finlandia 2005 · Winner

    Berg

    Bo Carpelan · 79 when first published

    Novel · 203 pages · Family, War

    AI-generated summary:Sixty-three-year-old Mattias hears from Sonja, the woman he adored as a boy, now old and dying at Berg, the family manor. Her summons sends him back to the place, and to the wartime summer of 1944 that marked them all.