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Anne Räisänen
Rewriting History
The idea that our modern Western social order is inexorably the goal of social evolution should be dismissed. In the book The Dawn of...
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Women in War
Around 40 years after the Second World War, journalist-writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of women who served...
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A Pale View
Kazuo Ishiguro's plaintive novel A Pale View of Hills is marked by clarity and mystery at the same time. The main character Etsuko, who...
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Artist's Wife
Aino Sibelius, the wife of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, was not a muse but an active figure in the creative work of her...
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On the Brink of Destruction
Even though there is a horrifying stream of images of war flooding from Ukraine, I decided to watch again the historical war film Ran by...
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In the Palm of a Monster
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is being praised everywhere. One reason for the success is certainly the fact that even if the novels...
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Atonement
The British author Ian McEwan is able to describe moments, moods and psychological relationships with magical precision. Even very young...
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The Silence of the Sea
A civilized German officer, an admirer of high culture and a composer of classical music, stays in a house in occupied France. The master...
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Traveller of the Century
A mysterious traveller arrives in Wandernburg, a vaguely placed town somewhere in the area of present Germany in the early 19th century. ...
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