- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2013 · Winner
Jokapäiväinen elämämme
“Our Daily Life” (title translated by AI)
Riikka Pelo (born 1972)
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Famous as a poet while still young, Marina Tsvetaeva flees revolutionary Russia with her daughter Ariadna, Alya, to join her husband, Sergei Efron, a former White Army soldier. Exile is meagre: first in Czech villages outside Prague, where she writes her greatest long poems, then in Paris, where both Sergei and Alya end up working for Soviet intelligence. One by one the family return to Moscow after Alya, and there the terror and the coming war quickly scatter them. Mother and daughter, and a poet's uncompromising devotion to writing, stand at the novel's heart.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 525 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Czechia, France, Russia
- First published
- 2013 by Teos
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9789518513899 (original)
- More
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