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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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- Pubblicato
- 2004
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- Titolo
- Popular Music from Vittula
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Mikael Niemi
- Editore
- Seven Stories Press
- Pubblicato
- 2004
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 237
- ISBN10
- 1583226591
- ISBN13
- 9781583226599
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Umorismo, Tematica musicale, Narrativa contemporanea, Amicizia, Regali per il nonno, Sessualità e intimità, Crescita, Gioventù, Letteratura nordica, Infanzia, Svezia, Letteratura svedese, Romanzi autobiografici, Scandinavia, Pubertà, Finlandia, Anni '60 del 20° secolo, Anni '70 del XX secolo
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2000
- Titolo originale
- Populärmusik fran vittula
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.