#Aki Ollikainen

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White Hunger – Aki Ollikainen 

3.3.2023

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Finnish book recommendations #4

Aki Ollikainen - Nälkävuosi

(The year of hunger, English title: White Hunger)

What does it take to survive? This is the question posed by the extraordinary Finnish novella that has taken the Nordic literary scene by storm. 1867: a year of devastating famine in Finland. Marja, a farmer’s wife from the north, sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children. Their goal: St Petersburg, where people say there is bread. Others are also heading south, just as desperate to survive. Ruuni, a boy she meets, seems trustworthy. But can anyone really help?

My friend lent me this book and it’s again not something I’d normally read.  But I find most Finnish books interesting, even if the topic is not so close to me. I actually had to read it in short amounts because it was a bit depressing.

I guess Finnish people always had to survive in extreme circumstances, which is always a good topic for a book. (My trip in -15 degrees seems like a sunny afternoon after this)

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2023/35. EL AÑO DEL HAMBRE. AKI OLLIKAINEN. LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE

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Je suis donc officiellement dans une période scandinave niveau lectures, et là je viens de finir Pastorale, d’Aki Ollikainen, auteur finnois.

Je crois que je suis passée à côté du livre. Complètement. Impossible de retenir qui était qui tout du long, ce qui est ma foi un peu gênant. Les personnages sont peu caractérisés, ça ne m’a pas trop aidée.

Restent de beaux moments, notamment dans la description de la nature. Dépaysement aussi avec le sauna, le lac glacé, la pêche, la vie rurale dans un pays de taiseux.

J’ai bien compris que cela avait les atours d’une fable, et que le loup en était la figure principale, mais je ne saurais en dire plus ou expliquer quoique ce soit.

Je reste sur ma faim (de loup).

[thegirlwiththebarnowltattoo]

Book: Musta Satu Author: Aki Ollikainen Pages: 157 Genre: Fiction - Historical/Mystery Rating: ★★

Synopsis

In the current time of Musta Satu the narrator’s family has fallen to pieces and his wife and son have left him. The reality has been twisted and the unsolved tragedies of bygone generations have started to take over his thoughts. Many paths seem to lead to Tattarisuo, a place where a man known as Noita-Kallio used to practice mystical rituals. 

In another time we meet Heino, a bootlegger who smuggles rectified spirit in Helsinki in the 1930s. Heino has a family, a wife and a son, and everything seems to be going well - but then he get’s struck by his own greediness towards both love and money. His selfishness and carelessness result in a chain reaction that extends from one generation to another and whiches initial or end point - depending on from what perspective we look at it - can be found in the nocturnal Tattarisuo.

My Thoughts

This is the book I bought because of the cover. I had no idea what to expect from this novel when I purchased it, I just loved the mysterious and beautiful cover.

The story is actually based on real events. In the 1930s, body parts were found in a spring in Tattarisuo. A group that was practicing black magic had taken the limbs from open graves and used them in their rituals. That’s about all that interested me in this book.

As we jumped from one time to another, it was hard to keep up with the happenings. The only thing that was keeping me somehow on track was the cursive for the events on 1930s. I felt like there was too much to be aware of and the stories kept intertwining. I didn’t get into the story and in the end I was left with so many questions. I felt like raising my hand up and asking: “Wait! Can someone explain to me everything that just happened?”

Ollikainen writes beautifully and delicately but this time it didn’t save the inadequate story. I wouldn’t reread this book or recommend it to a friend but I would read another book from this author.

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Littérature : “J’ai tant vu le soleil” de Emmanuel de Waresquiel (Gallimard) – “Pastorale” de Aki Ollikainen (Héloïse d’Ormesson)

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« Pastorale », d’Aki Ollikainen : crépuscule sur un petit coin de campagne en Finlande

Aki Ollikainen décrit la fin d’un monde sans histoire, rythmé par la succession des naissances et des morts, dans un roman élégiaque. from Livres : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. https://www.lemonde.fr/critique-litteraire/article/2020/01/17/pastorale-d-aki-ollikainen-crepuscule-sur-un-petit-coin-de-campagne-en-finlande_6026180_5473203.html via IFTTT

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Finland ranked world’s most literate nation

Report pooling investigates of literate action peculiarities from around the world places the Scandinavian country firstly, 16 homes ahead of the UK

Finland is the worlds most literate society, according to new experiment, with the UK coming in 17 th, behind countries including the US, Canada and Australia.

Home to Tove Jansson, the author of the much-loved Moomin books, and a widely praised education and training systems, Finland surfaced a table of world literacy in a new subject conducted by John Miller, chairperson of Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. The investigate looked at literacy accomplishment testing and also at what it called literate behaviour features everything from numbers of libraries and newspapers to years of schooling and computer availability in the countries.

Rather than calibrating a countrys ability to read, the Worlds Most Literate Nations suggests it grades commonwealths on their literate behaviours and their supporting aids. It set out to look at data from 200 countries, drawing from informants arraying from Unesco to the Programme for International Student Assessment( PISA) conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development( OECD ), but exclusively 61 constructed the final slash, due to lack of relevant statistics. Person was also considered, to give per capita ratios.

The Nordic countries reigned the top of the charts, with Finland in first place and Norway in second, and Iceland, Denmark and Sweden rounding out the top five. Switzerland followe in sixth, with the US in seventh, Canada in 11 th, France in 12 th and the UK in 17 th plaza. Botswana was last, in 61 st lieu, behind Indonesia in 60 th and Thailand in 59 th.

Miller said that the factors we examined present a complex and nuanced portrait of a nations cultural vigor, and that what the higher-rankings strongly show is that this type of literate practices are critical to the success of individuals and nations in the knowledge-based financials that define our global future.

The power and cost of being literate in a literate society is played out every day around the world, adds the report. Numerous individuals, and even whole societies, realize substantial relinquishes to become literate just as others take it for granted. Cultures that do not tradition literate behaviours are often squalid, undernourished in memory and mas, tyrannical of human rights and dignity, harsh and harsh.

The report been observed that if it exclusively ranked commonwealths on their reading assessment results, the final counters would have been very different. When this is the only factor considered, Singapore comes in top, with South Korea, Japan and China in second, fourth and fifth lieu respectively. Finland is no other non-Pacific Rim country to prepare the top five, in seam second place. The UK is 26 th.

Adding in the number of members of academic, public and academy libraries, and the number of members of volumes in libraries Estonia, Latvia and Norway top this list as well as statistics on years of education, computer invasion and newspapers, changes the results vastly. When influences other than experiment scores are included, there is not a single Pacific Rim country among the top 25, tells the report.

Miller said that a consistent conclusion from research reports was that there is no meaningful correlation between years of compulsory schooling and educational expenditures on the one handwriting and exam ratings on the other.

He believes that Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden took the five top slits in the study because their monolithic culture appreciates reading.

Finnish author Aki Ollikainen, whose debut novel White Hunger has just been longlisted for the Man Booker International prize, did: The most important thing is that schooling is equal, reading and improving have been appreciated also by working class and that the professing of belief and education is also revalued.

He contributed: I have to say, that Im very proud of the Finnish school system and too our libraries, which have very versatile accumulations available to all. Everybody has an equal opportunity to learn and to speak. In Finland we are use to keeping this obvious, but globally it is luxurious.

Commenting on the USs performance, Miller said that while the two countries had learnt its years of compulsory education increase, its practice of literate behaviours had decreased, while the ability to read had abode relatively the same. It is not so much that we are slowing down in this nature race, but preferably that others are speeding up, he said.

Diana Gerald, chief executive of UK speaking charity BookTrust, said the content to draw from studies and research was that we have to get babes reading more, and experiencing it more.

Were not going to change this ranking unless we have a nation that is construe. And its a virtuous circle if you read more for delight, you experience speaking more, and so “youre reading” more, she spoke. And that will show up in these figures.

Gerald said the 17 th neighbourhood was not absolutely frightful, but why wouldnt we want to be top?

We come from the nation of Dickens and Shakespeare, we have an extraordinary literary background, she supposed. I believe we are doing lots of good work on core literacy and phonics, which are indispensable, but we need to add get children from a young age into adoring interpret, and wanting to read … Weve got to get the fun and relish back into reading.

Top 10 most literate countries

1 Finland 2 Norway 3Iceland 4 Denmark 5 Sweden 6 Switzerland 7 US 8 Germany 9 Latvia 10 Netherlands

Top five by educational investment 1 Brazil 2 Israel 3 Mexico 4 Belgium 5 Argentina

Top five by test scores 1 Singapore 2 Finland 3 South Korea 4 Japan 5 China

By libraries 1 Estonia 2 Latvia 3 Norway 4 Iceland 5 Poland

By newspapers 1 Finland 2 Norway 3 Germany 4 Switzerland 5 Czech Republic

By households with computers 1 Netherlands 2 Iceland 3 Denmark 4 Luxembourg 5 Norway

The United Kingdom grades: 17 overall 11 by computer 12 by educational investment 29. 5 by libraries 31 by newspapers 26 by tests

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Il est saisi par le sentiment d’insignifiance qu’il éprouve toujours face à la mer par grand vent. Et cette sensation n’a rien de pénible, elle est même libératrice.

Aki Ollikainen, La faim blanche

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Tämon seuraava … odotan suuria !

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Ce peuple qui a faim quand nous écrivons nos poèmes: « coupe le pain d’écorce à moitié, quand le gel a du voisin la récolte emportée. » Tu as déjà goûté au pain d’écorce? Moi non. Nous ne sommes pas le peuple, Matias, nous ne franchirons jamais la frontière qui nous sépare du peuple. Parmi nous, seul Johan l’a fait. Il s’est mêlé au peuple, et il a crevé de ses maladies.

Aki Ollikainen, La faim blanche

[lesmotsdeslivres]

Des fleurs de glace ont envahi les carreaux, elles sont laides, elles se raillent des prairies d’été, ces floraisons de mort.

Aki Ollikainen, La faim blanche