Mr. Smith

Moving along the seams between East and West, past and present, the real and the invented, the novel travels out of an older world into globalised chaos, from Europe's bloom to the dusk of a material age. Its people include lovely Briscilla; Orvo Manninen, a retired newspaper editor, and his son, who builds smartphone apps; and Erkka Torro, an author whose inspiration is drying up. Moving among them, unbound by time or place, is the enigmatic Mr. Smith, well informed and dedicated to fixing problems, above all the mystery surrounding his grandfather, Herr Schmidt, and a manuscript that went missing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

278 pages in the original

First published

2012 by WSOY

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789510390030 (original)

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