IRON AGE

KAJERMO,ARJA

ISBN 10: 0993459234 / ISBN 13: 9780993459238

Edité par Tramp Press, 2018

N° de réf. du vendeur NWUS9780993459238

Synopsis :

JOSEPH O’CONNER: ‘This quiet, assiduously written short novel about a girl living in Finland among the looming shadows of war achieves the alchemy every writer would love to conjure up: it’s somehow about every childhood, every twilit life. A radiantly beautiful book’

The Iron Age is part-coming-of-age novel, and part-fairy-tale told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of post-war Finland.

On her family’s austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her – of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war.

The family crosses from Finland to Sweden, from a familiar language to a strange one, from one unfriendly home to another. The Girl, mute but watchful, weaves a picture of her vi-olent father, resilient mother and strangely resourceful brothers.

In this darkly funny debut, with illustrations throughout, folktales and traditional custom clash with economic reality, from rural Finland to urban Stockholm.

À propos de l'auteur: ARJA KAJERMO has contributed cartoons to the feminist publisher Attic Press and occasionally to the Sunday Press, The Irish Times, Image magazine, Magill and others. Her strip Dublin Four ran in the Sunday Tribune. She now draws the strip Tuula in the Sunday edition of a Swedish daily newspaper. In 2014 she was shortlisted for the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award for her short story The Iron Age,upon which this novel is based. Arja lives in Dublin.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : IRON AGE
Éditeur : Tramp Press
Date d'édition : 2018
Reliure : Couverture souple
Illustrateur : Torner, Susanna Kajermo
Etat : NEW