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New Finnish Grammar

Diego Marani

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One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can identify him. When he regains consciousness he has lost his memory and cannot even remember what language he speaks. From a few things found on the man, the doctor, who is originally from Finland, believes him to be a sailor and a fellow countryman, who somehow or other has ended up in Trieste. The doctor dedicates himself to teaching the man Finnish, beginning the reconstruction of the identity of Sampo Karjalainen, leading the missing man to return to Finland in search of his identity and his past.

New Finnish Grammar won three literary prizes in Italy; the Premio Grinzane Cavour, Premio Ostia Mare and Premio Giuseppe Desi. Judith Landry's translation won The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012 and was shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Award 2012. In the USA it was shortlisted for The Best Translated Book Award.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dedalus
  • Publish Date: Jul 31st, 2021
  • Pages: 187
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - 0002
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 4.90in - 0.70in - 0.35lb
  • EAN: 9781912868216
  • Categories: • Literary• Historical - 20th Century - World War II & Holocaust

About the Author

Marani, Diego: - Diego Marani was born in Tresigallo, a village near Ferrara in 1959. In March 2021 he left his job as the officer in charge of Cultural Diplomacy at the European Union in Brussels to become the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.
He writes columns for various European newspapers about current affairs in Europanto, a language that he has invented. His collection of short stories in Europanto, Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot has been published by Dedalus.
He has published twelve books in Italian, including the highly acclaimed New Finnish Grammar (Dedalus 2011).

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On Twitter I mostly follow literature. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.

@johnstonglenn Trieste, city where translation and literature loom large again in Diego Marani's wonderful "New Finnish Grammar."

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Independent Publisher of Contemporary English language fiction, translated European fiction, European classics

The Celestial City will be the sixth book by Diego Marani that Dedalus has published. The others were New Finnish Grammar, The Last of the Vostyacks, The Interpreter, God's Dog and in Europanto Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot. https://t.co/Qnc8eD8jWE

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Writer of real and pretend; teacher @ColumbiaSOA, Writing Through Motherhood. Work @JoylandMagazine @ElectricLit @mcsweeneys @BOMBmagazine etc. She/her

Rules for Lying, SEMO Press, 2016 Mr. RIGHT-SWIPE or SWITCH AND BAIT by Ricki Schultz New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart A Naked Singularity - Sergio de la Pava Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith The Last Voyageurs

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Praise for this book

'Beautifully written and translated, and beautifully original.' Kate Saunders in The Times
Don't be put off by the unwelcoming title: this is an extraordinary book, as good as Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and with a similar mystery at its heart.' Cressida Connolly in The Spectator's Books of the Year
'Marani's miraculous novel is profound, moving, elusive and tragic.'
Eileen Battersby Books of the Year in The Irish Times
'I can't remember when I read a more extraordinary novel, or when I was last so strongly tempted to use the word "genius" of its author.' Nick Lezard in The Guardian

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