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The Red Book of Farewells

The Red Book of Farewells

Saisio, Pirkko
Spangenberg, Mia

Hardcover

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1949641465
ISBN13: 9781949641462
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: Apr 25 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.

Pirkko Saisio's autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg's tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a series of farewells--to her mother, to the idealism of youth, to friends and lovers, and finally to her grown daughter. The novel embeds readers in a delirious Finland, where art and communist politics are hopelessly intertwined, and where queer love, still a crime, thrives in underground bars. But then one morning in 2002, on a remote island off the coast of Finland, the narrator Pirkko Saisio informs her publisher that she's accidentally deleted her latest manuscript, The Red Book of Farewells. Playful and mysterious, The Red Book of Farewells is a work that stoically embraces the small revolutions of moving on.

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