Book Review: Giving Up a Russian Passport Begins a Tormenting Process
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- A review examines Dess Terentjeva’s novel “The Big Dog Runs and the Headless Rooster Flies.”
- The book makes the relationship between reality and fiction deliberately unclear.
- The novel’s form, genre and progression create its central tension, according to the review.
Dess Terentjeva’s new novel does not simply blur the line between reality and fiction. It also makes the reader question the form of the book itself.
The Tampere-based writer’s “The Big Dog Runs and the Headless Rooster Flies” turns its genre, structure and individual parts into a central source of tension. The reviewer says this made it necessary to avoid revealing not only plot details, but also the novel’s form.
The review describes the result as fine literature. Terentjeva’s earlier work includes the verse novels “Ihana” (2021) and “Zeno” (2024), as well as the “Neonkaupunki” trilogy, written with Susanna Hynynen and published from 2020 to 2024.
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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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