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by Andrew Bramwell
Pages: 200
imprint: Vanguard Press
ISBN: 9781843865742
“Always I longed to return to my workshop, the key to which I still held in my pocket. As long as I could recall my past existence, that other life I knew, there was a seed of humanity within me.”
Suspense gathers from the start of ‘Karelia’, a stirring tale of internal struggles in a time of war.
At the centre of the story is the figure of Hannu, a son, a brother and a carpenter, accustomed to the turn and plane of wood - not machine guns and death. But when the Soviet Union launch their assault across the Finnish border into the Eastern lands of Karelia, Hannu finds himself suddenly and reluctantly forced to leave his family and beloved craft to enter a very different world. A world where he is often too acutely aware of just how different he is from other soldiers - but also how similar.
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