- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2001 · Winner
Canal Grande
Canal Grande
Hannu Raittila (born 1956)
Translated by Andrew Chesterman
English editions
In EnglishCanal Grande
BoD – Books on Demand · Finland · 2023 · Paperback · 299 pages
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A Finnish working group comes to Venice, city of canals and carnival, to rescue its palaces from water damage. Engineer Marrasjärvi is an ordinary Finnish family man, while the expert Saraspää cultivates elegance; a cultural counsellor heads the delegation, and the secretary Tuuli watches. Arriving in dense fog, the visitors meet a Venice where commerce and art, love and death run together, and only a canal separates them from crime.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 328 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2001 by WSOY
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9789510244937 (original)
9789523305281 (BoD – Books on Demand, Finland)
- More
- Wikidata