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The Colonel's Wife

By Rosa Liksom

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The Colonel's Wife

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A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who "conjures beauty from the ugliest of things" (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel's Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel's Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2019-11-05
Publication Date:
2019-11-05
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1644450089
ISBN13:
9781644450086
Weight:
218 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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