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Popular Music from Vittula Hardcover - 2003

by Mikael Niemi; Laurie Thompson (Translator)


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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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  • Title Popular Music from Vittula
  • Author Mikael Niemi; Laurie Thompson (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 237
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date September 2003
  • ISBN 9781583225233 / 1583225234
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.64 x 0.84 in (20.22 x 14.33 x 2.13 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003002496
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

MIKAEL NIEMI was born in 1959 and grew up in Pajala in the northernmost part of Sweden, near the Finnish border, where he still lives. He is the author of several books of poetry and fiction for both young people and adults.
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