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After the international success of his opera Tom of Finland, the post-minimalist composer Alf Holm is famous. The novel goes back to his roots in a pulp-scented port town in Ostrobothnia, told by an original narrator helped by his writing teacher and, above all, by the ghost of Odin Sikström, a local composer, cyclist and tinsmith. It opens on a cold, rainy spring day in the present with a fateful event in a corner of the restaurant Terrazzo, once the meeting place of the town’s young, and reaches back to Jakobstad, New York and Vaasa in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, to the sound of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Frank Zappa. It is the second stand-alone part of a Jakobstad trilogy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

488 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, United States, 1960s–1980s

First published

2018 by Förlaget

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9789523331266 (original)