It’s a sweltering summer’s day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer’s disease, and she has made him a terrible promise—one she’s not sure she can keep. For Anja’s niece, Mari, death is a teenage fantasy of grieving family and eternal beauty, an escape from the dullness of her life. But the adventure she longs for seems to come within reach when she begins a relationship with her charismatic teacher, Julian. His six-year-old daughter, Anni, is a witness to their blossoming affair, observing the lies and truths of those around her as she tries to discover what it is to be an adult. The Limit draws together these four people, all struggling to work out where their boundaries lie. In vivid, incandescent prose, Riikka Pulkkinen reveals how our limits can show us who we really are.
Author
Riikka Pulkkinen was born in 1980 and spent her youth in Oulu, a town on Finland’s northwest coast, with her father (a lawyer), mother (a doctor), and two sisters. During that time, she was also a very talented athlete. Nowadays she studies literature and philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and does her jogging without a stopwatch. The Border, Pulkkinen's first novel, was published in 2006 and got positive reviews and immediate sales success. Her second novel, True, came out in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Finland. The film rights of True have been sold to Vertigo Productions (Finland), and its adaptation for the stage premiered at Helsinki KOM Theatre in November 2011. Pulkkinen’s third novel, The Book of Strangers, was published in September 2012. The publishing rights for Pulkkinen’s novels have been sold to publishers all around the world. Current rights sold and published translations for each of her books can be viewed in the books section. See more at: http://riikkapulkkinen.com/author?lan...
