Kaarna

For years Laina has been somewhere far away in her mind. Now she is dying in hospital, and her son and two daughters visit: Martti, a snowplough driver for the local council who has never married or left the village, and Eeva and Marja, whose busy lives are down south. Planning the funeral, each remembers their childhood in a different way. They have always got along, yet Martti has felt like the spare one, and he hopes his sisters will stay at his place, though they are busy elsewhere. Behind it all lies a partisan raid in 1944 that changed Laina forever; by refusing to remember, she denied her children a way to heal as well. As the end nears, Martti tries to piece the story together before it is too late.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

204 pages in the original

Genres

War, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1944, 2000s

First published

2024 by WSOY

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789510503195 (original)

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