Things that Fall from the Sky

Informationen zum Autor Selja Ahava  is a novelist and a scriptwriter. Her acclaimed debut novel  The Day the Whale Swam through London  (2010) was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literary Prize, and won the Laura Hirvisaari Prize (the Bookseller’s Literary Prize) in 2010. Her second novel,  Things that Fall from the Sky  (2015) won the EU Prize for Literature in 2016, and was nominated for the Finlandia Prize and the Tulenkantajat Prize. Klappentext WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction... A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice falls from the sky. A woman wins the jackpot twice. A man is struck by lightning four times. Coincidence? Or something more? Things That Fall from the Sky is the tale of three lives that are changed forever by random events. But it is also a meditation on the endurance of love, the passage of time and the pain of loss. Selja Ahava, one of Finland's best-loved novelists, weaves these stories together in an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind fable about the twists and turns that can define a lifetime. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATUREOne quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction…

Product details

• Authors: Selja Ahava
• Assisted by: Emily Jeremiah (Translation), Fleur Jeremiah (Translation), Jeremiah Emily (Translation), Jeremiah Fleur (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2019
• EAN: 9781786075413
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-541-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Finland, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary