Jos se näyttää siltä

Among acquaintances Mr Lyysälä is simply Lyy, but he has no real acquaintances. Retired into old age, he asks little of life: he drives his car, lives in a Helsinki apartment block and keeps a tactful distance from the other residents. One of them, a young boy, seems for some reason to have grown attached to him, and when this new friend suddenly disappears, the building’s court of opinion has no doubt who is guilty. Chronically tongue-tied, Lyy only makes things worse: every attempt to talk turns into clumsy jabs that offend the property manager, the caretaker’s wife and a know-it-all who sees him as a criminal. A loss buried in his past keeps him silent.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

234 pages in the original

Set in

Finland

First published

2019 by Teos

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789518519853 (original)