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River. Title: River. Language: English. Number of Pages: 140. Publication Date: 2025-03-04. Publisher: Open Letter. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: River ISBN13: 9781960385130 ISBN10: 1960385135 Author: Vinogradova, Laura (Author), Straumanis, Kaija (Translator) Description: Winner Of The 2021 European Union Prize For Literaturesis, I Want To Tell You About The River About Me In The River It Makes Me Shiver, Tremble It Makes Me Laugh It's Been So Long Since I've Felt This Alive Rute Is No Stranger To Displacement And Loss As A Child She And Her Older Sister, Dina, Were Subject To Their Mother's Romantic Whims, Moving From House To House, Boyfriend To Boyfriend Then, When The Sisters Were In Their Late Twenties, Dina Disappeared In The Decade That Has Since Passed, Rute Has Become A Husk Of Her Former Self, Going Through The Motions In Work, Life, And Love, Composing Daily Letters To Dina In The Hopes They'll One Day See Each Other Again When The Sisters' Biological Father, JūLe, Dies, Rute Unexpectedly Inherits His Country Property Curious About This Man She's Never Really Known, She Takes The Opportunity To Flee The City, The People, Herself But Once In The Countryside She Meets Matilde, The Young, Single Mother From Next Door Who (Along With Her Brother Kristof) Was Practically Raised By JūLe Rute Learns About JūLe, A Generous Soul Whose Door And Heart Were Always Open To Those Less Fortunate Haunting, Sparse, And Echoing Scandinavian Greats Like Kjersti Skomsvold, Laura Vinogradova's River Is A Tightly Crafted Work That Defies Resolutions And Endings, Instead Hailing The Importance And Beauty Of The Personal Journey To One's Internal Truths And External Freedoms Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Open Letter Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Dimensions: Number of Pages: 140 Language: English