Colonel's Wife, The: A Novel - Softcover

Liksom, Rosa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1644450089 ISBN 13: 9781644450086

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2019

Synopsis

At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.

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About the Author

Rosa Liksom was born in a village of eight houses in Lapland, Finland, where her parents were reindeer breeders and farmers. She spent her youth traveling Europe, living as a squatter and in communes. She paints, makes films, and writes in Helsinki.

Edition details

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644450089
• ISBN 13: 9781644450086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160