The winter job
Tuomainen, Antti2025
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Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go - and no money - he's desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to the northernmost town in Finland. With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty steering wheel, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada. That's when Ilmari realises that he is transporting something truly special - and when he realises he might be in serious trouble.
Main title:
The winter job / Antti Tuomainen ; translated from the Finnish by David Hackston.
Author:
Tuomainen, Antti, authorHackston, David, translator
Imprint:
London : Orenda Books, 2025.
Collation:
228 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781916788824 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
894.54134
Language:
EnglishFinnish
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BRN:
9002212