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Dark Paradise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Dark Paradise

A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents--but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible. Rosa Liksom populates a world of snow-covered landscapes, antiseptic apartments, fish factories, and lumber camps with the obsessive, the violent, and the unhinged. A woman refuses to leave prison until she has served her entire sentence. A man obsessively cleans his apartment as his life moves on around him. A woman kills her new husband over his neediness and inability to leave their bed.

Compartment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Compartment

A sad young woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she's trying to leave a broken relationship as far behind her as she can. Wanting to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment - No 6. Her solitude is soon shattered by the arrival of a fellow passenger: Vadim Nikolayevich Ivanov, a grizzled, opinionated and foul-mouthed ex-soldier, 'a cauliflower-eared man in a black workingman's overcoat and a white ermine hat'. Vadim fills the compartment with his long and colourful stories, recounting his sexual conquests and violent fights in lurid detail. At first, the young woman is not so much shocked as disgusted by him, and she stands up to him, throwing a boot at his head. But though...

The Colonel's Wife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

The Colonel's Wife

A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, an...

The Colonel's Wife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

The Colonel's Wife

A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, an...

One Night Stands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

One Night Stands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Thanks to Rosa Liksom, post-punk writing is alive and well in Finland. Her vignettes on contemporary urban living have made her the representative writer of her generation. Her characters work play and drink hard and have little time to wallow in self-indulgence. Like the film maker Karusmaki, Rosa Liksom portrays a generation left high and dry by the post-war economic ?miracle.' No-hopers for whom paradise is drugs and cheap drink in Copenhagen.

Giants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Giants

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Station Gagarin
  • Language: sv
  • Pages: 128

Station Gagarin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Korte fortællinger i "eventyrstil". Fortællingerne er henlagt til Sibirien og Mongoliet og handler om mennesker underordnet ødemarken, om liv og død, kærlighedslykke og svigt fortalt med drastisk humor

Paradis ultra light
  • Language: sv
  • Pages: 126

Paradis ultra light

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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You Can't Win
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

You Can't Win

"Much of this book is about loneliness. Yet its pages are bracingly companionable. It is one of the friendliest books ever written. It is a superb piece of autobiography, testimony that cannot be impeached. While it is a statement of an American tragedy, it has laughter, brevity, style; as a book to pass the time away with, it is in a class with the best fiction." — Carl Sandburg, New York World "Nothing half as rewarding has come down the highway of books about thieves, tramps, murderers, bootleggers and crooks in years " — New Republic "I believe Jack Black has written a remarkable book; it is vivid and picturesque; it is not fiction; it is a book that was needed and it should be widel...

Kupé nr 6
  • Language: sv
  • Pages: 123

Kupé nr 6

En kylig nordost bar på balalajkans syrliga toner. På rälsen vilade utmattade och tysta lokomotiv. Den mjölkvita himlen, som hastigt ramlade ner, började slänga en kylig snömodd över marken som piskats av den vintriga vinden, hela rymden var fylld av en nedslående tristess. En arkitektstuderande ung kvinna tar Transsibiriska järnvägen mot Ulan Bator för att studera grottmålningar. Hon delar kupé med en vodkapimplande buse på väg till ett bygge. I den lilla trånga kupén möter öst väst och under den flera veckor långa resan berättar den manschauvinistiske mördaren hårresande historier om sitt liv och om sitt land, Sovjet. Kupé nr 6 är en kompakt, poetisk och mångbottnad historia om en tågresa genom 1980-talets Sovjetunionen. ”Humorn som föds ur Rosa Liksoms tillspetsningar och snabba vändningar är skoningslös och absurd. Med till synes enkla penseldrag får Liksom fram enskilda människoöden och ett helt lands historia”, stod det i motiveringen när Rosa Liksom fick Finlands största litterära pris, det prestigefulla Finlandiapriset 2011 för Kupé nr 6.