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Girl on Heaven's Pier, Paperback / softback Book

Girl on Heaven's Pier Paperback / softback

Part of the Finnish Literature Series series

Paperback / softback

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Originally published in 1951, this novel tells of a young girl living with her deeply religious grandparents in pre-war Vyborg-before it became part of the Soviet Union.

Leena hates school, loves music and rain, and wanders through the town in a state of childish enchantment. “Like a spruce cone, a child falls into a world where logical disorder replaces magical order, and there you are-in trouble, we’ll agree.” The world she inhabits features multiple layers of reality, and this is reflected in the novel’s artful narrative: life and death are reflections of each other, and reality is merely a map of the individual’s inner world.

Through the naive perspective of a young girl, the book addresses deep philosophical concerns in simple, lucid prose.

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