Backlight

Backlight - Hardcover

$23.00
$23.00
Skip to product information
Backlight
  • Backlight
Backlight - Hardcover

Backlight - Hardcover

by Pirkko Saisio
$23.00
$23.00

Book Overview

by Pirkko Saisio (Author), Mia Spangenberg (Translator)

Pirkko Saisio, now a teenager, can't decide which she hates most: God, her father, or her growing breasts. Grandpa has moved into the room long promised to her, and Mother, overworked and distant, tries to keep the peace between her headstrong daughter and husband. When she's not escaping into her books, Pirkko has fun getting into trouble. That is until her Finnish teacher suggests she might have what it takes to be a real writer, but only if she is willing to work hard and make certain sacrifices.

Years later, Pirkko spends the historic summer of 1968 working at a Swiss orphanage. The world is shifting around her, and to make matters even more complicated: she's homesick. At the orphanage no one understands her German, and away from home for the first time, she struggles to make sense of her suppressed queerness. In Backlight, the Finlandia Prize-winning author looks backward and inward, once again emerging, in Mia Spangenberg's sensitive translation, with an intimate portrait of a life lived in language.
Number of Pages: 280
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: June 10, 2025
ISBN9781949641806
Author Pirkko Saisio
PublisherTwo Lines Press
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedJune 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages280
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Fiction LGBTQ+ Literary Women

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

More by Pirkko Saisio

Product title

Product title

By

You may also like