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The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer. From the outside they are a happy young family looking forward to a long holiday together.
But look under the surface, and their happiness shows signs of not lasting the summer. On the eve of the holiday, Erik lost his job, but hasn't yet told the family. And the arrival of Julia's childhood friend Marika - along with her charismatic husband Chris, the leader of a group of environmental activists that have given up hope for planet Earth and are returning to a primitive lifestyle - deepens the hairline cracks that had so far remained invisible.
Around these people, over the course of one summer, Philip Teir weaves a finely-tuned story about life choices and lies, about childhood and adulthood. How do we live if we know that the world is about to end?
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Philip Teir is a Finland-Swedish writer considered one of the most talented young novelists in Scandinavia. His poetry and short stories have been featured in anthologies including Granta Finland. His first novel The Winter War was a WHSmith 'Fresh Talent' pick. He lives in Helsinki, Finland.
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"With a genuinely transporting sense of place and languid summer vibe, this is a stimulating and articulate novel driven by character and ideas, and is thus inevitably more about questions than answers." - Isabel Costello “Uncanny and intriguing, and set against a captivating natural backdrop of forest, tarns and long Nordic summer nights, the story quietly unfolded by the Finland-Swede Teir explores coming-of-age, adulthood and the cracks between expectation and experience.” -Sunday Times “Teir is especially good at inhabiting the minds of his younger characters and there’s an understated dark humour throughout....A very interesting read that will have you thinking about it after you have put it down.”-Belfast Telegraph PRAISE FOR THE WINTER WAR 'Scandinavia's answer to Jonathan Franzen ... a remarkable eye for human behaviour' -Telegraph "A darkly comic, satisfying novel of richly rendered inner tensions played out in interpersonal relationships." - Kirkus
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1781259283
- ISBN 13 9781781259283
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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