- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2021 · Shortlist
Kuuleminen
“The Hearing” (title translated by AI)
Marjo Niemi (born 1978)
English editions
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The narrator, comfortable and quite average, wants above all to be noticed and listened to, and so sets about writing letters. A lover, a father, someone owed money and a total stranger receive outpourings of yearning, grievance and homemade art, with confession and flattery in between. Reality intrudes now and then in the shape of a speed-dating evening, a screenwriting course or just a cupboard, and restraint is in short supply.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 223 pages in the original
- First published
- 2021 by Teos
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9789523631304 (original)