Popular Music from Vittula
Author: Mikael Niemi
Translator: Ji-hyun Jeong
Publisher: Nanggiyeolla
350 pages | 200*140mm
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About This Book
When a Beatles record falls into the hands of 11-year-old Matti, neither
he nor his home village of Pajala, Sweden, will ever be the same. It is
the early 1960s, and both Matti and Pajala are about to enter
adolescence. This is a beautiful, poignant, often very funny novel about
growing up in a remote area. Niemi writes with real poetry as he strings
together the culturally rich vignettes of Matti's experiences, snapshots
of childhood that are at the same time intensely personal and universal:
the burn of the first alcoholic drink, the thrill of a first kiss, the
awe of first sex, the special closeness of a first best friend, the pain
of the first real loss--all rendered pure and convincingly as a young
boy's perceptions. Niemi also seasons the book well with the mysticism
of childhood that suffuses the usually hidden psychological space where
the transformation from child to youth occurs. An exquisitely beautiful
novel. --Paula Luedtke
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