- Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2016 · Shortlist
Tankkien kesä
“The Summer of the Tanks” (title translated by AI)
Sirpa Kähkönen (born 1964)
English editions
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In August 1968 the architect Juho Tiihonen returns to Kuopio, a town in upheaval where prefab blocks rise and old wooden quarters vanish, and with them the memories that the politically awakened Stella Mertanen records on her tape recorder. Anna grieves for an allotment cottage flattened for a motorway. Juho realises he has been lied to for years about the spring of 1945 and the childhood friend who disappeared.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 412 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Finland, 1968
- First published
- 2016 by Otava
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
9789511293132 (original)