Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel
by:
Maile Chapman (author)
Sunny Taylor is an American nurse who hides behind a mask of crisp professionalism at a Finnish convalescent hospital called Suvanto. On a late-summer day, a new patient arrives on Sunny’s ward, and soon Suvanto’s reliable calm begins to show signs of strain. As summer turns to fall, and fall to...
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Sunny Taylor is an American nurse who hides behind a mask of crisp professionalism at a Finnish convalescent hospital called Suvanto. On a late-summer day, a new patient arrives on Sunny’s ward, and soon Suvanto’s reliable calm begins to show signs of strain. As summer turns to fall, and fall to a long, dark winter, the escalating menace of Maile Chapman’s astonishing debut novel builds to a terrifying conclusion.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781555975876 (1555975879)
Publish date: May 24th 2011
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Definitely a strange book. Part historical fiction, part literary fiction, with a touch of creepiness mixed in as well. I'm not sure it's entirely successful though, but I wouldn't say it was entirely bad either.First and foremost, the writing was a mixed bag. At times, I really liked the way the...
I picked this up off the "new books" shelf at the library, knowing nothing about it. I liked the cover and the reviews on the back made it sound enthralling and spooky, atmospheric and insular. Well, it certainly was atmospheric and insular, taking place at a remote women's rest home in 1920s Finlan...
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