Lit in Translation

Petri Tamminen

Born 1966 · Finland

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Books on prize lists

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    Finlandia 2006 · Shortlist

    Enon opetukset

    Title translated by AI:“Uncle's Lessons”

    Petri Tamminen · 40 when first published

    Novel · 205 pages · Family, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:Jussi, a gloomy academic whose thesis goes nowhere, feels life passing him by. From boyhood to forty he turns for guidance to his mother's brother, a self-assured, hard-drinking charmer barely ten years his senior.