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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Ikuinen arvoitus: Romaani

Ikuinen arvoitus: Romaani

Af Geijerstam, Gustaf
Kaila, Antti

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 9378415962
ISBN13: 9789378415968
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Finnish
How can a marriage survive when every word is examined for hidden meaning and every silence becomes evidence? Karsten Bloch, a railway official consumed by jealousy and obsessive self-analysis, lives beside his estranged wife in Stockholm while emotional hostility replaces intimacy. Their son is caught between them, burdened with concealing a conflict he cannot resolve. Karsten's hunger for certainty only deepens the distance between confession, explanation and truth. Across railway offices, cafés and nocturnal streets, his restless wandering gives this psychological novel its searching movement. Yet private anguish is inseparable from the social world around him. A disturbing encounter with poverty, violence and unexplained murder in a workers' tenement extends the question of unknowability beyond marriage: motives remain obscure, guilt resists simple judgement, and interpretation can become destructive. Love and possession, infidelity and secrecy are held in uneasy tension, without offering the comfort of easy answers. Snowbound isolation brings no escape from the mind's relentless arguments. In a northern home and secluded writing room, darkness and silence sharpen the loneliness already present in Karsten's life, while his narration exposes both the urgency and the limits of self-examination. Blending psychological fiction with social observation and an unresolved mystery, the novel asks whether another person can ever be fully understood-or whether the demand to understand may itself destroy what remains between them. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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