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Original Title:	Totta ASIN B00FXYU1A2
Setting:	Finland
Literary Awards:	Finlandia Prize Nominee (2010)

L'Armoire des robes oubliées

Riikka Pulkkinen

Kindle Edition | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 2724 Users | 217 Reviews

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Title	:	L'Armoire des robes oubliées
Author	:	Riikka Pulkkinen
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	March 15th 2013 by Albin Michel (first published 2010)
Categories	:	European Literature. Finnish Literature. Fiction. Contemporary

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« Une des oeuvres littéraires les plus fortes que j'ai lues depuis longtemps. »
Helsingin Sanomat

Alors que sa grand-mère Elsa se meurt d'un cancer foudroyant et que tous ses proches se rassemblent pour adoucir ses derniers jours, Anna découvre que, derrière le mariage apparemment heureux de ses grands-parents, se cache un drame qui a marqué à jamais tous les membres de sa famille. Une vieille robe trouvée par hasard, et dont elle apprend qu'elle aurait appartenu à une certaine Eeva, va réveiller le passé.
Cette Eeva, dont on ne lui a jamais parlé, aurait été, dans les années 60, la nourrice de sa mère. Mais Anna ne tarde pas à comprendre qu'elle a été beaucoup plus qu'une employée et que son grand-père, peintre célèbre, l'a profondément aimée...

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I enjoyed this book, a gift from my dear Finnish friend. The story itself is straightforward enough about an elderly pschology professor, Elsa, dying from cancer and really the best part of the book is Elsa. She is a complicated professional woman who tries to direct the type of dying and death she is faced with. She does so successfully and in a way that is quite inspiring. Another dynamic in the novel is Elsa's and Martti's long term marriage. This was also well done and felt authentic and

Pulkkinen slips back and forth between two generations as the family of a dying psychologist is forced to confront their past and their relationships with each other. I enjoyed the portraits of life in 1960s Helsinki, as well as the increasingly unreliable narration. Pulkkinen's characters observe the same scenes and people in different ways, and there is some pleasant detective work in piecing together the "real" person behind others' viewpoints of her or him.

The terminal diagnosis of a 70 year old woman puts those around her in touch with their own mortality, causing each to assess significant life events. This is a very slow moving novel, mostly told through memories. Marital infidelity and its consequences for the children and for the partner outside the marriage are the focus for several generations. The author loves her similes, often repeating the same image over and over. I find it very difficult to be sympathetic to characters whose violation

Really fantastic work of fiction that plays with narrators and characters in a completely new, complicated way. Read as an assignment for Empathy in Literature (COLT360) at the University of Oregon.

One of the blurbs on this book refers to the author as "A thirty-something Finnish Joyce Carol Oates." I have to agree, in the sense that her primary subject seems to be the unavoidable pain of our awareness of mortality. The narrative unfolds from multiple perspectives, and deals with loss, regret and the manner in which patterns of behavior echo through biological families, and also in the larger, 'Family of Man' sense.I've not read any Finnish literature before, but will certainly be

There are certain topics I never liked, that I wish I never needed to read. Unfortunately, you can't always avoid your abstinence. You might as well go on with your choice (once you pick up a book).The relationship between Martti and Eeva is personally unlikable. Something I couldn't understand, something I couldn't sympathize to. Something, to the extreme, disgusted me. And, so, as you might expected, it stole away my initial innocent love for the book. It was painful for me to read through the

A long drawn out story about an affair and death.Story: Elsa is a strong-minded Finnish woman on the brink of death. She has a husband, who is an artist, a daughter, and grandchildren. This book describes the interpersonal relationships between them.Language: Occasionally one comes across a person in life who talks a lot, but actually says nothing. That's how I felt about this book. The characters go on and on about what if, hours sitting together not talking, avoiding issues, never having