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Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel - Maile Chapman
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel
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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... show more
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)
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
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Maven Books
Maven Books rated it
3.0 Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman
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...
Austen to Zafón
Austen to Zafón rated it
2.0
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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