Tikkanen has an unusual ability to let language lightly touch the most delicate topics, to capture the expression of emotion as it is being experienced, and perhaps, above all an entirely unique ability to describe falling in love as fresh and new as it is to those who have just been cast under its spell. Lisbeth Larsson, Expressen

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Märta Tikkanen (b. 1935) is a Finnish-Swedish journalist, writer, and teacher. Much of her writing deals critically with gender roles and the shackles that bind women, as well as women's liberation and the desire for self-realization. She became a central figure in the Nordic women's movement with her novel Manrape (1978), which was adapted into a 1978 film directed by Jörn Donner. She is the recipient of several awards for her work, including the Nordic Women's Alternative Literature Prize, Finland's State Prize for the Dissemination of Knowledge, the Swedish De Nios Grand Prize, the Swedish Academy's Finland Prize, and Finland's State Literary Prize. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages. Stina Katchadourian is an author and a translator living in Stanford, California. Her most recent book is The Lapp King's Daughter, a World War II memoir from her native Finland based on her parents' correspondence and her own personal memories. Her translations have won her the Pushcart Prize, the Södergran Prize and the Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

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A classic Swedish-Finnish novel, haunting, profoundly personal, evocative novel, written in verse, dissecting one woman's fraught relationship with her alcoholic husband.