Girl on Heaven's pier : a novel / Eeva-Liisa Manner ; translated by Terhi Kuusisto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manner, Eeva-Liisa, author.

Contributor:

Kuusisto, Terhi, translator.

Series:

Finnish literature series

Standardized Title:

Tytto taivaan laiturilla. English

Language:

English

Finnish

Subjects (All):

Girls--Fiction.

Girls.

Reality.

Perception in children.

Grandparent and child--Fiction.

Grandparent and child.

Perception in children--Fiction.

Reality--Fiction.

Vyborg (Russia)--Fiction.

Vyborg (Russia).

Russia (Federation)--Vyborg.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive edition.

Place of Publication:

Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.

Notes:

Originally published in Finnish as Tytto taivaan laiturilla by W. Söderström (Porvoo, 1951).

"Originally published in 1951, this novel tells of a young girl living with her deeply religious grandparents in pre-war Vyborg -- before it became part of the Soviet Union. Leena hates school, loves music and rain, and wanders through the town in a state of childish enchantment. "Like a spruce cone, a child falls into a world where logical disorder replaces magical order, and there you are -- in trouble, we'll agree." The world she inhabits features multiple layers of reality, and this is reflected in the novel's artful narrative: life and death are reflections of each other, and reality is merely a map of the individual's inner world. Through the naive perspective of a young girl, the book addresses deep philosophical concerns in simple, lucid prose" -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781628971385

162897138X

OCLC:

935986639