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**AD-TEAM** · 09-13-2024, 07:54 AM

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Quote:Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand-and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles.
The story unfolds in sweltering wood saunas, amidst chain thrashings and gang warfare, learning to play the guitar in the garage, over a traditional wedding meal, on the way to China, during drinking competitions, while learning secret languages, playing ice hockey surrounded by snow drifts, outsmarting mice, discovering girls, staging a first rock concert, peeing in the snow, skiing under a sparkling midnight sky. In the manner of David Mitchell's Black Swan Green, Mikael Niemi tells a story of a rural Sweden at once foreign and familiar, as a magical childhood slowly fades with the seasons into adult reality.

Category:Fiction, Literature, Fiction Subjects, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, World Fiction, Arts & Entertainment - Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Scandinavian Fiction, Rock n' Roll - Fiction, Rural Settings - Fiction, Swedes - Fiction, Swedish Fiction

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