The Iron Age is part-coming-of-age novel, and part-fairy-tale told
from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of
post-war Finland. On her family's austere farm, the Girl learns
stories and fables of the world around her - of Miina, their
sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too
close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the
door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war. The
family crosses from Finland to Sweden, from a familiar language to
a strange one, from one unfriendly home to another. The Girl, mute
but watchful, weaves a picture of her violent father, resilient
mother and strangely resourceful brothers. In this darkly funny
debut, with illustrations throughout, folk tales and traditional
custom clash with economic reality, from rural Finland to urban
Stockholm.
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