Jääkansi

Set around 1950 in a northern parish, this short novel follows a girl for whom respect and love become foreign words. Her father has fallen at the front, and her mother takes a new man scarred by the war. Haunted by what he has been through, he turns the family’s cottage into a hell on earth, and in the end the girl escapes by taking work at a hospital. Grown into a woman, she returns to the cottage one last time to free herself from the past.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

116 pages in the original

Genres

War, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, about 1950

First published

2017 by Like

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789520115487 (original)

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