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Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand—and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles.The story unfolds in sweltering wood saunas, amidst chain thrashings and gang warfare, learning to play the guitar in the garage, over a traditional wedding meal, on the way to China, during drinking competitions, while learning secret languages, playing ice hockey surrounded by snow drifts, outsmarting mice, discovering girls, staging a first rock concert, peeing in the snow, skiing under a sparkling midnight sky. In the manner of David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, Mikael Niemi tells a story of a rural Sweden at once foreign and familiar, as a magical childhood slowly fades with the seasons into adult reality.
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Popular Music from Vittula, Mikael Niemi
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2004
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- Titel
- Popular Music from Vittula
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Mikael Niemi
- Uitgever
- Seven Stories Press
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2004
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 237
- ISBN10
- 1583226591
- ISBN13
- 9781583226599
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Humor, Muzikale thematiek, Hedendaagse literatuur, Vriendschap, Cadeaus voor Opa, Seksualiteit & intimiteit, Volwassen worden, Jongeren, Noordse Literatuur, Kindertijd, Zweden, Zweedse literatuur, Autobiografische romans, Scandinavië, Puberteit, Finland, Jaren '60 van de 20e eeuw, Jaren '70 van de 20e Eeuw
- Eerste editie
- 2000
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Populärmusik fran vittula
- Beoordeling
- 3,7 van 5
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- Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand—and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles.The story unfolds in sweltering wood saunas, amidst chain thrashings and gang warfare, learning to play the guitar in the garage, over a traditional wedding meal, on the way to China, during drinking competitions, while learning secret languages, playing ice hockey surrounded by snow drifts, outsmarting mice, discovering girls, staging a first rock concert, peeing in the snow, skiing under a sparkling midnight sky. In the manner of David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, Mikael Niemi tells a story of a rural Sweden at once foreign and familiar, as a magical childhood slowly fades with the seasons into adult reality.