Lopotti

Helena, from a remote northern village, is only nine when she is uprooted and sent alone to a school for the blind in Helsinki in the 1950s. Slowly she learns the city’s smells, sounds and distances. Forty years later her nephew Tuomas moves of his own will to a university town in the south, eager to meet every expectation while secretly dreaming of a family of his own. There he gets to know his aunt in a new way.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

364 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland

First published

2016 by WSOY

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789510415344 (original)

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