Akvarelleja Engelin kaupungista

Autumn 1816: the committee for rebuilding Helsinki has chosen the German Johan Carl Ludvig Engel as its architect, and he moves with his family to a thinly settled, rocky headland in the outer archipelago. What architect would refuse to build a whole city, even in so dark and remote a place? Helsinki never becomes a real home, but it becomes his life’s work. The book is his imagined night diary from 1816 to 1840, weighing the human cost of that work.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

215 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1816–1840

First published

2016 by Gummerus

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789512402649 (original)

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