27 eli kuolema tekee taiteilijan

Angie believes real artists die at 27 and become legends, like Cobain, Morrison, Joplin and Hendrix, and the birthday leaves her with twelve months to write a book and earn her own immortality. In Prague, where she studies and mostly drinks, everything has stalled: friends, family and art. So she heads north, to a lakeside plot in Finland owned by her literature teacher, an enthusiast for Kalevala symbolism. Deep in the Finnish woods a household has swapped the city for a green, somewhat chaotic life: two parents, twin boys, a girl just learning to talk and her toy pig, Mr Piggy. Their routine wobbles when the would-be artist settles into their sauna cottage. The tale passes between four voices, one of them the pig's.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

311 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Finland

First published

2010 by Teos

Author's age

30 when first published

ISBN

9789518513028 (original)

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