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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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- Année de publication
- 2004
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- Titre
- Popular Music from Vittula
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Mikael Niemi
- Éditeur
- Seven Stories Press
- Publié
- 2004
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 237
- ISBN10
- 1583226591
- ISBN13
- 9781583226599
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Humour, Thématique musicale, Littérature contemporaine, Amitié, Cadeaux pour papy, Sexualité et intimité, Maturation, Jeunes, Littérature nordique, Enfance, Suède, Littérature suédoise, Romans autobiographiques, Scandinavie, Puberté, Finlande, Années 60, Années 70 du XXe siècle
- Première publication
- 2000
- Titre original
- Populärmusik fran vittula
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 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.