A week ago at the Helsinki International Book Fair

Fri Nov 4 05:12:36 CDT 2016

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2016-11-04 10:46 GMT+01:00 Heikki R <situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com>:

> A week ago at the Helsinki International Book Fair, the Finnish writer
> Jari Tervo (basically a realist spiced w/ modernist techniques) advertized
> his new novel. To the readers of Ilta-Sanomat (the leading Finnish
> tabloid), he also "recommended the [in Finnish translation] 1000-page novel
> Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. 'There's no
> need to read another book for a long time. It's a magnificent story about
> just everything. You need to stay focused, but it is certainly one of the
> most tremendous novels of the 20th century.'"
>
> http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/art-2000001942137.html
>
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