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In Finland, she is a renowned and acclaimed artist: winner of the prestigious Finlandia Prize last year, she is also a novelist, playwright, professor, actress and director.
Pirkko Saisio began working on her autobiography,
The Helsinki Trilogy
, in 1998, the first volume of which,
The Lowest Common Denominator
, has just been translated into French.
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Little Pirkko is a lonely child, she has no brothers or sisters, and lives with loving parents, tender grandparents and a multitude of uncles and aunts with tumultuous lives.
But let's go back forty years later, Pirkko is watching over his father in the hospital, an old man with rare words, who, a few days later, will die.
The memories, then, emerge, precise: the smells of brioche and currants, she inhales them again, the swallows announcing the end of summer, she can glimpse them.
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And then she still feels it, this strange feeling of not being who she hoped for.
She…
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