Romeo ja Julia

Shakespeare's tragedy moved to present-day Finland. Vante is seventeen and Julia thirteen, and what keeps them apart is not a family feud but four years between them, disapproving parents and finally the law. Vante's love is total, reckless and fiercely protective; Julia, gentle and still a child, learns to look away from what she cannot bear. When the adults close ranks, the two run, heading across a frozen country towards a life together. On the way they run into kind passers-by and family members, but love has made them too suspicious to accept help, ski through deep snow, cross treacherous ice, and shelter in a grandmother's frosty bedroom. The story is told in a breathless, almost unpunctuated voice that mimics speech.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

182 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland

First published

2007 by Tammi

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789513140212 (original)