- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2011 · Winner
Compartment No. 6
Hytti nro 6
Rosa Liksom (born 1958)
Translated by Lola Rogers
English editions
In EnglishCompartment No. 6
Graywolf Press · United States · August 2016 · Paperback · 192 pages
Compartment No. 6
Serpent's Tail · United Kingdom · 2014 · Paperback · 181 pages
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A girl with a dream boards the Siberian train and is put in compartment six with a Russian man. Outside the window the Soviet Union rolls by, town after identical town, decaying plants, rivers spilling over, forests full of poison; inside, she meets the country's run-down, absurd daily life, its battered yet resourceful people, its corruption and its brutal near past. The ride becomes a dissection of a sealed-off state and a journey into the girl's own depths.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 186 pages in the original
- Set in
- Russia
- First published
- 2011 by WSOY
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9789510382745 (original)
9781846689277 (Serpent's Tail, United Kingdom)
9781555977474 (Graywolf Press, United States)
- More
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