- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2024 · Shortlist
Liv!
Helmi Kekkonen (born 1982)
English editions
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She is twenty-two, idle and a little bored during her final week of summer at the family's island cottage. Rising early one day, she settles on the shore rocks, and just as sleep comes a stranger sits beside her, too close and too at ease. His boldness draws and unsettles her in equal measure; in the end curiosity and desire prevail, and she makes a date with him that she keeps from her mother and sisters. What happens then cuts her life, and theirs, in two. Though every one of the women wants what is best for her, they clash over how to name what was done to her and what a victim must or may do.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 183 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2024 by Siltala
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9789523882218 (original)