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by Riikka Pulkkinen
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Critic Rating
25%
Critic Reviews: 8
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Reader Rating
62%
Reader Ratings: 7
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Synopsis
From a young European literary sensation, a masterful novel of psychological suspense.Elsa is dying. Her husband, Martti, and daughter Eleonoora are struggling to accept the crushing thought that they are soon to lose her. As Elsa becomes ever more fragile, Eleonoora's childhood memories are slipping away. Meanwhile, Eleonoora's daughter Anna spends her time pondering the fates of passersby. For her the world is full of stories. But the story that will change... more
About Riikka Pulkkinen
- All Critics: 8
- Positive: 2
- Negative: 6
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The New York Times | 20 Apr 2012
Pulkkinen... trips the pretension alarms from the outset of this lugubrious multigenerational drama
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Kirkus Reviews | 5 Feb 2012
The emotional intelligence of the prose avoids melodrama to develop authentic poignancy.
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Seeing the World Through Books | 28 Mar 2012
Even though this is a novel and not reality, of course, it is presented as “true,” and I could not get past the feeling that in real life the sharing of this story would have been regarded as a violation of privacy
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The Indextrious Reader Blog | 8 Apr 2012
I did find this a good read, though it took me a little while to get into it.
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Publishers Weekly | 9 Jan 2012
An eloquent family saga that falls short of revelation.
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ForeWord Reviews | 29 Feb 2012
Readers will find themselves captivated by something sublime existing somewhere between apologia and apology.
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Shelf Love | 17 Mar 2012
Although the affair doesn’t seem to define this family in the present, it did get a lot of dramatic space within the book, and it made me feel at times like the book didn’t quite know what it was.
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