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Tauno is a failure: lonely, disillusioned with the world, a visual artist with no portfolio; he is in love with his neighbor Karin but—hampered by his inhibitions and a fear of rejection—unable to confess his feelings. Satu is annoyed by her pushy boyfriend, Tuomas. She goes to a bar with him, only to cheat on him in the restroom with a bearded stranger. Henry recalls humiliations inflicted by his peers and the homosexual advances of a beachgoer—advances he struggled to fend off while steadfastly suppressing the attraction he felt toward them… In seven interconnected stories, Simon Konttas paints a vivid portrait of the Finnish hinterland and the lives, loves, and occasional mere existences of the people who dwell there—along with their characteristically unusual traits.

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• Categories->Books
• Categories->Language Learning->Adult
• Languages->World Languages->German
• Subjects->Novel