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bookshelves: translation, published-2000, italy, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, finland, under-500-ratings, wwii, summer-2013 Read from June 18 to 20, 2013 Translated by Judith LandryTo Simona, Alessandro and ElisabettaEi Suomi ole mikaan kieli, se on tapa istua penkin paassa karvat korvilla. Paa...
This was a fast and exiting read, and no knowledge of Finnish was required.If one ever wondered how language is related to identity, this is a good start to get the thoughts coming. Tragic, yes, but insightful.
Translated by Judith LandryTo Simona, Alessandro and ElisabettaEi Suomi ole mikaan kieli, se on tapa istua penkin paassa karvat korvilla. Paavo HaavikkoOpening: My name is Petri Friari, I live at no.16 Kaiser-Wilhelmstrasse, Hamburg and I work as a neurologist at the city's university hospital.Some ...
This Italian author has received much praise for this prize-winning novel, only recently translated into English (2011), despite being originally published in 2000. My mother is Finnish, and I know and love Helsinki and Finland. Without this interest, I do not think I would have read this book or ev...
This reads more like a man's desperate attempt to make sense of a language, a culture, and a history behind them that is wholly different from his own, than it reads like a novel about an amnesiac man searching for an identity through a new language. I appreciated the historical accuracy, but can on...
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