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Bow Island

The Story of a Summer that was Different

By: Bo Carpelan

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Bow Island

The Story of a Summer that was Different

By: Bo Carpelan

Summary: An eleven-year-old boy learns a great deal about human relationships during a summer spent on an island in the Baltic Sea.

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140

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ISBN 10

0440007437

ISBN 13

9780440007432

Urwind

By: Bo Carpelan

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Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind, an aging bookseller, to his wife, who has left him for an indeterminate spell of greater freedom and study in the United States. The wife's absence haunts the letters, which are often tales of Daniel's daily rituals. Yet Daniel's narration of such mundanities--changing the bookshop window dressing, or housekeeping--approaches magical realism; memories of his wife, fantasies, bad dreams, monologues, and dialogues with the living and the dead coalesce in a complex layering of experience, past and present. Urwind is a construct worthy of Bachelard's Poetics of Space, and a painful chronicle of the ending of a love.

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210

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Northwestern University Press

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ISBN 10

0810116189

ISBN 13

9780810116184

Axel

A Novel

By: Bo Carpelan

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Axel

A Novel

By: Bo Carpelan

In the 1930s, Finnish poet Bo Carpelan found mention of his great-uncle Axel in a biography of the composer Jean Sibelius. This friendship is the genesis of Carpelan's fictional diary of Axel's dual obsession with music and with a man who, unlike him, had enough confidence in his creativity to compose his own. In Carpelan's novel, set during Finland's struggle to escape Russian domination, young Axel's life is full of melancholic introspection communicated only to his diary. The short entries describe his adolescent antagonism toward healthier and more joyous peers, and his embarrassment at his futile attempts to coax beauty from his violin. His unrelenting disappointment and self-effacement give way after meeting his hero Sibelius, as Axel's search for meaning and an aesthetic ideal becomes forever linked to the unfolding of the composer's musical genius.

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388

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Northwestern University Press

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0810116170

ISBN 13

9780810116177

Axel

A Novel

By: Bo Carpelan

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A Novel

By: Bo Carpelan

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0810116170

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9780810116177

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Bow Island

Bow Island

Urwind

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Axel

Axel

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