Publication Date: 24/04/2013 ISBN: 9781922070340 Category:

The Limit

Riikka Pulkkinen, Lola Rogers

Publisher: Scribe Publications
Publication Date: 24/04/2013 ISBN: 9781922070340 Category:
Paperback / Softback

£12.99

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Description

It’s a sweltering summer’s day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer’s disease, and she has made him a terrible promise – one she’s not sure she can keep.

For Anja’s niece, Mari, death is a teenage fantasy of grieving family and eternal beauty, an escape from the dullness of her life. But the adventure she longs for seems to come within reach when she begins a relationship with her charismatic teacher, Julian. His six-year-old daughter, Anni, is a witness to their blossoming affair, observing the lies and truths of those around her as she tries to discover what it is to be an adult.

The Limit draws together these four people, all struggling to work out where their boundaries lie. In vivid, incandescent prose, Riikka Pulkkinen reveals how our limits can show us who we really are.

Publisher Review

Simultaneously entertains, inspires, and challenges us to think. Aamulehti One of the most intelligent philosophical novels in recent years. De Morgen An impressive novel. De Volkskrant An extraordinarily distinguished debut. Helsingin Sanomat 'A quiet. mature novel ... Pulkkinen explores the limits of people's control over their own actions and circumstances' -- Kerryn Goldsworthy Sydney Morning Herald

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