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Translated into English by Anselm Hollo.
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A modern classic of Finnish literature,
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This review is from: A Day in Ostrobothnia (Paperback)
The modern classic "A Day in Ostrobothnia" won Antti Tuuri his Nordic Prize for Literature in 1985 and was successfully made into a feature film by Pekka Parikka in 1988 (Plainlands, orig. Fi. Pohjanmaa). The novel depicts action and psychology with equal skill.
The novel offers an abundance of Finland's dramatic history, seamlessly embedded in local and idiosyncratic episodes. Some critics feel the novel places them in the middle of a Western movie; others compare Tuuri to Faulkner and Hemingway in the English-speaking world and in the Finnish tradition to Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers and Väinö Linna's Unknown Soldier and the trilogy Under the North Star. Anselm Hollo, acclaimed translator of Finnish, renders Tuuri's humor, irony, and witticism beautifully in English. He has adopted a voice and tone that does Tuuri's exacting prose justice. A Day in Ostrobothnia serves up a captivating reading experience.
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