Meek heritage / by F.E. Sillanpää ; translated from the Finnish for the first time by Alexander Matson.

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Sillanpää, F. E. (Frans Eemil), 1888-1964 [Browse]
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English
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1st American ed.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
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273 pages ; 21 cm

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    "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.
    Notes
    • Translation of Hurskas Kurjuus.
    • "Originally published as Hurskas kurjuus".
    LCCN
    38025343
    OCLC
    1456105
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