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The Finnish Civil War as a backdrop
this novel Siegfried Lenz in 1951 as a 25-year-old his literary career. The ingredients are relatively simple: Persecution of political dissidents, fleeing, a love story, and all in the rural environment of the Finnish-Russian border area against the background of the Finnish Civil War . This completely forgotten war took place in early 1918, after Finland by the Russian Bolsheviks was granted independence. It took less than four months and ended - unlike Russia - with the victory of the bourgeois forces. Siegfried Lenz may create this scenario, a good book? The historical background events remain, including the novel is slow in motion, but he wins in the last third of the speed and excitement and reveals the literary talent of the author.
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