作品情報

戦争の影が迫るヘルシンキで、人間関係が静かに軋む。

『Hägring 38』として書かれた作品で、英語版では Mirage 38 として流通する。1938年のフィンランドを通じて、過去の傷と時代の不穏さを重ねる。

書籍情報

出版社

MacLehose Press

発売日

2016-06-15

ページ数

352ページ

言語

英語

ISBN-13

9781848669833

ISBN-10

1848669836

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary

1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group. Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when she experienced horrors she has been trying to forget ever since. And one evening, with the Wednesday Club gathered in Thune's office, she hears a voice she hoped she would never hear again. She is suddenly plunged back into the past. But this time she is no longer a helpless victim ...

Born in 1961, Kjell Westö lives in Helsinki. He made his literary debut in 1986, and since then has published poetry, collections of short stories, and novels. His five great novels set in Helsinki in the twentieth century have established him as a leading name among today's Swedish-language writers in Finland. His international breakthrough came in 2006 with the novel Där vi en gang gått (Where Once We Walked), which was translated into most major European languages and for which he was awarded the Finlandia Prize, Finland's most prestigious literary prize. His novel Hägring 38 ( The Wednesday Club ) was awarded the Nordic Council award 2014.

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