Lakanasiivet

Everything happens in Kuopio on 1 July 1941, a blazing summer day early in the Continuation War, and the only day the town was bombed. Sleepless from sirens and heat, and with no word from their men at the front, the townspeople go about their morning. Mizzi, a dancer, comes in on a night train with her small girl. Juho Tiihonen, a boy placed with Mrs Lehtivaara as a wartime foster child, makes up his mind to escape. Mertanen the merchant expects his wife; Dr Kelo sees his daughter off to the women's auxiliary; Helvi Martiskainen weighs her affair with a policeman; Anna Tuomi plans to bring her twins in from the farm. Around noon the enemy bombers come, the Mertanen sawmill goes up in flames, and by its light every life shifts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

398 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1941

First published

2007 by Otava

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789511213260 (original)