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The novel follows a swimming team preparing for the Olympics, a company that designs artistically ambitious water slides, and a man who escapes his neuroses by locking himself in a garden shed. It shows how a walk across Copenhagen can yield a poetry collection’s worth of images, tracks Roma horse traders who, through a fold in time, live two hours in the future, and tells of Bach devotees conducting dangerous human experiments. There is a shy boy who speaks only through Post-it notes and an addict living under a boat in Spain who sees the sky through a gap in the hull. Above all it is a large book about everyday life in the present and how to live in it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

858 pages in the original

First published

2017 by WSOY

Author's age

28 when first published

ISBN

9789510420881 (original)

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