Kosken kahta puolta

Two summer days in 1977 in the life of a seven-year-old boy, spent at his two grandmothers’ homes in the same town, on either side of the rapids. One family fought with the Reds in the civil war, the other with the Whites, yet their children fell in love like Romeo and Juliet and had a son. At one grandmother’s, water comes from the well and heat from the woodshed, and his playmate is Vilho, who took a bullet in the stomach in 1918. The other has a prize garden, a crystal chandelier and Mannerheim on the wall. The boy lives his summer in two realities and hears two different truths about young Finland.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

200 pages in the original

Genres

Family, War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1977

First published

2018 by Tammi

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789520401603 (original)