Hävitys

Out jogging after dark, A glimpses someone she recognises beside an empty lot and knows that the past has never ended. She plunges into a frantic pursuit of her own history and an equally frantic escape from it, through a Turku scarred by repeated destruction and back into mouldy 1990s school buildings, toward a darkness that resists language yet must be put into words. What does it mean to write a self that was shattered by others, and to record the cruelty of childhood in a society that despises children and would rather forget? Bullying and exclusion spread outward from one girl to a city and to a planet under assault.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

400 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1990s

First published

2022 by Siltala

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789522349774 (original)

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