The Trench Road
Matti Virtanen, a Helsinki man whose wife has left him, becomes convinced that buying a house of the kind built for veterans will bring her back, and he goes into debt for it. The pursuit of the house becomes a private war. It won the Finlandia Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
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