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Niemi, Mikael

Popular Music from Vittula: A Novel

Seven Stories Press, 2003

25.00 €

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(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
2003
ISBN
1583225234
Place of printing
New York
Author
Niemi, Mikael
Publishers
Seven Stories Press
Edition
1st US Edition.
Keyword
Fiction
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

A book that welcomes us to the vodka belt of northern Sweden, a place far from anything imagined by Ingmar Bergman or the artist Carl Larsson. Here instead, through the killing cold and dark of the long winters and the harsh brightness of the brief summers, are a people set apart from the rest of Sweden, who speak a Finnish dialect, are silent, stalwart, wary, and very often drunk on "mash," the gut-rotting, brain-deadening alcohol made from potatoes. Matti's story, in Niemi's inimitable telling, describes a world that seems to have abandoned him, and yet where he can still come completely to life. Translated into English from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.237p.