- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2004 · Winner
Runoilijan talossa
“In the Poet's House” (title translated by AI)
Helena Sinervo (born 1961)
English editions
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Early in 1971 the Finnish poet Eeva-Liisa Manner gazes up through the broken roof of her Spanish home in Churriana. Rain and rotting beams have wrecked the rooms, and her drafts and translations lie soaked on the ground. Among the debris she comes across old letters and photographs, and dreads that last summer will happen again, when an earthquake brought the house down and she broke down mentally. Did someone want her dead, or did she want to die? The novel follows Manner through her friends and lovers, her growth as a writer, her publisher, her childhood, her sexuality and her longing for faith.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 240 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Spain, Finland, 1971
- First published
- 2004 by Tammi
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9789513121594 (original)
- More
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