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New Finnish Grammar

New Finnish Grammar

Author(s): Diego MArani

Location(s): Helsinki, Trieste

Genre(s): Fiction, Novella

Era(s): Post WW2

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After a badly wounded sailor with amnesia is discovered washed up on the quay in Trieste after the Second World War, he’s taken back to Helsinki by a Finnish doctor in an attempt to rebuild his identity. Together they use Finnish to explore the connections between language and identity.

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