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Hanna Hauru

Born 1978 · Finland

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    Finlandia 2017 · Shortlist

    Jääkansi

    Title translated by AI:“Ice Cover”

    Hanna Hauru · 39 when first published

    Novella · 116 pages · War, Family, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:Around 1950 in a northern Finnish parish, a girl whose father fell at the front grows up under a stepfather scarred by the war, who turns the family’s cottage into a hell on earth.