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Expecting a baby, Annie reluctantly heads home to the farm in Tornedalen, a borderland whose language, Meänkieli, is neither Swedish nor Finnish. Nobody is thrilled to see her. The Toimi family consists of a mother, a father and twelve children, or fourteen if you include everyone, and they have never been at peace, haunted as they are by a secret. Narrated by many voices in the manner of oral storytelling, the novel asks whether we answer for the wrongs of our families, and whether a family's history can be changed or rewritten. It is a dark folk tale of inheritance, mourning and love.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

437 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2019 by Norstedts

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9789113086972 (original)

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