Red Book of Farewells

'A Finnish masterpiece of autofiction... a dreamy, complex and therefore so very human portrait of the formation of a great artist' Financial Times This is where she would like to belong, here in the kingdom of women, where words are sharp but gazes are soft. In 1970s Helsinki, a revolutionary storm is blowing through Pirkko Saisio s university. She has moved out of her family home, joined a commu...