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Bookended by two coffins, one fetched on a farcical errand when the narrator is small and one carried at a funeral decades later, the novel tracks Jussi from boyhood to forty. He never quite manages to live: a depressive researcher whose thesis goes nowhere, he watches his own marriage come apart as though it were someone else's. All along he has looked up to his mother's brother, barely a decade older, who seemed to have everything Jussi lacked, swagger, women and a ready philosophy of life. Even grown up, Jussi keeps seeking his advice, though the uncle is a drinker who breaks every promise, and a planned fishing weekend at a cottage dissolves into a bender that lands one of the women in hospital.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

205 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland

First published

2006 by Otava

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9789511211501 (original)

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