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Meek heritage / by F.E. Sillanpää ; translated from the Finnish for the first time by Alexander Matson.
Author
Sillanpää, F. E. (Frans Eemil), 1888-1964
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Uniform title
Hurskas kurjuus.
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Language
English
Εdition
1st American ed.
Published/Created
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
Description
273 pages ; 21 cm
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2064.82.348.8
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Finnish fiction
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20th century
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Translator
Matson, Alex, 1888-1972
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Summary note
"There is a somewhat dirge-like quality to this story of Finland peasants, of the drear and bleak life of penniless crofters, without one alleviating moment of better fortune. A drunken father and a cowed and slatternly mother both die and an uncle and aunt in better fortune, take the boy, Jussi, when he is orphaned, but thrust their charity upon his consciousness. He never becomes more than the slow-witted, clumsy child, and his adult life follows the pattern of his childhood -- a sordid picture. Eventually, an old man, victim of circumstances in an abortive proletarian revolution, he faces a firing squad and reviews his life. --Kirkus.
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Translation of Hurskas Kurjuus.
"Originally published as Hurskas kurjuus".
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38025343
OCLC
1456105
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