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Same River, The
Author(s): Jaan Kaplinski (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Owen
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 072061340X
- ISBN-13: 9780720613407
Book Description
Considerered Kapliniski’s most significant work to date, this is one of the most widely read Estonian novels of recent years. Tartu, Estonia in the 1960s. A young student falls under the spell of a tutor who proves to be not the sage that was supposed to be, and their friendship attracts the attention of the Soviet authorites in a tense, cerebral and fascinating novel which is sure to be the perfect introduction of Kaplinski to readers in Western Europe and beyond.
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About the Author
Poet and essayist Jaan Kaplinski is probably the best-known and most acclaimed Estonian writer today, and famous as one of those who wrote the Letter By The Forty, a dissident protest that rocked the Soviet authorities and was a signpost to the liberation of Estonia from Communist rule. He is the author of Evening Brings Everything Back and The Wandering Border.
