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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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- Titel
- Popular Music from Vittula
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Mikael Niemi
- Verlag
- Seven Stories Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 237
- ISBN10
- 1583226591
- ISBN13
- 9781583226599
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Humor, Musikalische Thematik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Freundschaft, Geschenke für Opa, Sexualität & Intimität, Erwachsenwerden, Jugend, Nordische Literatur, Kindheit, Schweden, Schwedische Literatur, Autobiografische Romane, Skandinavien, Pubertät, Finnland, 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2000
- Originaltitel
- Populärmusik fran vittula
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- Beschreibung
- 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.