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Pulkkinen, Riikka

 
9781964992525: Enchantment

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Philippa Laakso was many things to many people. Caring and selfish. Kind to some, cruel to others. And now, she was dead.

When seventeen-year-old Philippa's body is found in her front yard, the police launch an investigation. Everyone close to Philippa is questioned: The elderly neighbor who discovered her body, who kept confusing Philippa with his late wife. The best friend, who hoards a secret stash of objects she'd stolen from Philippa over the years. The ex-boyfriend, still reeling from their sudden break-up months before. The woman who features, enraged, in some of the strange videos Philippa filmed on her beloved PEN Olympus camera. The older men she'd been meeting via a dating app.

Each tells a different story: she was a confidant, a fantasy, a temptation, a problem, a mystery, a mirror. But did any of them truly know her?

Enchantment is a spellbinding literary mystery that explores the uneasy terrain of girlhood, where one is always being watched, shaped, and judged by others. In it, Riikka Pulkkinen (called the "Finnish Joyce Carol Oates" by Livres Hebdo) weaves a complex story of power and identity, and the fragile boundary between truth and fiction.

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À propos des auteurs

Riikka Pulkkinen was born in 1980 and studied literature and philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of True, which was published in seventeen countries and shortlisted for the 2010 Finlandia Prize for Fiction. The Limit, her debut novel, was a bestseller in Finland and the Netherlands, and won the Kaarle and Laila Hirvisaari prizes. Riikka lives in Helsinki, Finland.



Tabatha Leggett is a writer and literary translator from North Wales. She is a current Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa's Literary Translation MFA programme and a graduate of New York University's Fiction MFA programme, where she was an Axinn Fellow. Enchantment is her debut translation.


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9781915590770: Enchantment

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1915590779 ISBN 13 :  9781915590770
Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2026
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