True
Pulkkinen, Riikka, 1980-2012
Book
Elsa, the matriarch of an eminent Helsinki family, is dying. Her family members gather around to support her, but their hidden struggles come, too - there's Elsa's granddaughter Anna, lost in her own world and concealing an unhappy affair that will not heal; Martti, Elsa's loving husband, whose dreams are haunted by the spectre of another woman; and Elsa's adult daughter Eleonoora, anxiously trying to deal with her mother's illness. As Elsa's existence becomes more fragile, the anchors of Eleonoora's childhood memories begin to slip away, and the foundations upon which the family has built its life for forty years start to shift. One afternoon, Anna discovers a secret that goes to the very heart of her family - a secret that takes her back to the restlessness and change of the 1930s, a Europe in the throes of a social revolution, and a stranger named Eeva who entered her family's lives, changing them forever.
Main title:
True / Riikka Pulkkinen ; translated by Lola M. Rogers.
Work:
Imprint:
Brunswick, Vic. : Scribe Publications, 2012.
Collation:
358 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published by Octava Publishing Company Ltd with the Finnish title Totta, 2010.Translated from the Finnish.
ISBN:
9781921844690
Dewey class:
894.54134
Language:
EnglishFinnish
Added title:
BRN:
73696
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | PULK | Available |