- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2016 · Shortlist
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“European Dreams” (title translated by AI)
Emma Puikkonen (born 1974)
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A Polish truck driver, Toma, picks up a young hitchhiker, Johannes, and on the road the two share a vision neither forgets. Years later Johannes lies on a sickbed and gains the strange ability to see wherever he wishes. A Hungarian, Viktor, travels to Berlin for a party congress and meets a young Dutch woman, Eline, while in the Kosovo village of Gornje Obrinje something irreversible is about to happen. What if Viktor could change the village’s fate? In linked episodes, the turns of recent history cross the everyday lives of ordinary people, and each scene holds something unexpected that makes reality look different for a moment.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 179 pages in the original
- First published
- 2016 by WSOY
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9789510415795 (original)