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Iron Age

Arja Kajermo
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      The Iron Age is part-coming-of-age novel, and part-fairy-tale told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of post-war Finland. On her family's austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her - of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war. The family crosses from Finland to Sweden, from a familiar language to a strange one, from one unfriendly home to another. The Girl, mute but watchful, weaves a picture of her violent father, resilient mother and strangely resourceful brothers. In this darkly funny debut, with illustrations throughout, folk tales and traditional custom clash with economic reality, from rural Finland to urban Stockholm.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Arja Kajermo EAN: 9780993459238 COUNTRY: Ireland PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Tramp Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-05-18 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Family Life / General WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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      Arja Kajermo has contributed cartoons to the feminist publisher Attic Press and occasionally to the Sunday Press, The Irish Times, Image magazine, Magill and others. Her strip 'Dublin Four' ran in the Sunday Tribune. She now draws the strip 'Tuula' in the Sunday edition of a Swedish daily newspaper. In 2014 she was shortlisted for the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award for her short story 'The Iron Age', upon which this novel is based. Arja lives in Dublin.
      The Iron Age is part-coming-of-age novel, and part-fairy-tale told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of post-war Finland. On her family's austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her - of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war. The family crosses from Finland to Sweden, from a familiar language to a strange one, from one unfriendly home to another. The Girl, mute but watchful, weaves a picture of her violent father, resilient mother and strangely resourceful brothers. In this darkly funny debut, with illustrations throughout, folk tales and traditional custom clash with economic reality, from rural Finland to urban Stockholm.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Arja Kajermo EAN: 9780993459238 COUNTRY: Ireland PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Tramp Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-05-18 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Family Life / General WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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      Arja Kajermo has contributed cartoons to the feminist publisher Attic Press and occasionally to the Sunday Press, The Irish Times, Image magazine, Magill and others. Her strip 'Dublin Four' ran in the Sunday Tribune. She now draws the strip 'Tuula' in the Sunday edition of a Swedish daily newspaper. In 2014 she was shortlisted for the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award for her short story 'The Iron Age', upon which this novel is based. Arja lives in Dublin.

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