Liksom, Rosa: Everstinna
The colonel's wife : a novel / Rosa Liksom ; translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers.
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Liksom, Rosa (författare)
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Rogers, Lola (översättare)
- ISBN 9781644450086
- First Graywolf printing.
- Publicerad: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
- Engelska 152 pages
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- "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, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. The Colonel's Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism."--Provided by publisher.
Ämnesord
- Women fascists -- Finland -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Military spouses -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Military spouses. (fast)
- Reminiscing in old age. (fast)
- Women fascists. (fast)
- Finland -- History -- 1918-1939 -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Finland -- History -- 1939-1945 -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Finland. (fast)
- 1918-1945 (fast)
Genre
- Novels. (fast)
- Fiction. (fast)
- Historical fiction. (fast)
- History. (fast)
- Psychological fiction. (fast)
- Novels. (lcgft)
- Historical fiction. (lcgft)
- Psychological fiction. (lcgft)
Klassifikation
- PH355.L489 (LCC)
- 894/.54133 (DDC)
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