Voimattomuus

For thirty-two years Jaakko, a clergyman born in the post-war boom, has kept faith with his wife Harriet, resisting every temptation. What she has been thinking all that time is another matter. One Midsummer, Jokke, a young friend of their son Mikael, appears unannounced at the couple's lakeside cottage, and the marriage that had stiffened into habit begins to move. Harriet takes a young lover and leaves, Jaakko's world falls in, and he finds he has lost the only two listeners he ever had, his wife and God. Partly written as drama, the book passes the word among many speakers, from the spouses and their son to Jokke and a crowd of Harriet's friends, each scrutinising the rest without suspecting they are scrutinised in turn.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

491 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2005 by WSOY

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789510307892 (original)