- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2009 · Winner
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“The Oven” (title translated by AI)
Antti Hyry (born 1931)
English editions
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A man has spent years building a house by the sea, and now it needs a brick oven for warmth and bread. He recalls one he knew in a cottage long ago and works out its flues. The oven is finished by summer, yet the building goes on, and the book dwells on what lasts and what passes.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 400 pages in the original
- Set in
- Finland
- First published
- 2009 by Otava
- Author's age
- 78 when first published
- ISBN
9789511238454 (original)
- More
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