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Sain tämän joululahjaksi anopilta, jolle annoimme kumppanin kanssa Kazuo Ishiguron ”Klara ja aurinko”-romaanin. Pääsin siis vaihtamaan hyvän kirjan toiseen hyvään kirjaan! Kiva aloittaa vuosi näin.

Krohnin tapa kirjoittaa on todella lyyrinen ja rönsyilevä, mutta hänen kuvaamansa hahmot ja ympäristöt rakentuvat silti hyvin konkreettisiksi ja aidoiksi lukiessani. Kirjan kuvituksena olevat grafiikan vedokset ovat täydellinen lisä luomaan tunnelmaa ja kuvaamaan tainaronilaisia heidän hyönteismäisessä loistossaan.

raisa's review

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

laurakatarooma's review against another edition

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4.0

Tämähän oliki hyvä! Lähti vähän tylsästi liikkeelle, mutta sitte imas mukaansa ja ei malttanu laskea käsistään.

lukijana_aija's review against another edition

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emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

bhaines's review against another edition

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fake cities are good and it's full of bugs. Didn't always hit the pieces that were about more than bugs for me but still fun

Another approach to describing a city

moonlit_shelves's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

danburn's review against another edition

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4.0

I picked up Tainaron as part of a "weird fiction" ebook sale, not having heard of it before. By Finnish author Leena Krohn, it is written as a series of letters from an unnamed person staying in the city of Tainaron. Tainaron is a city populated by insects, and it is implied that the writer is human. The letters are to a lover or friend back in the writer's home city, and a lot is left unexplained. It's a fascinating novel, and hard to understand exactly what is going on, as a lot of things are hinted at or implied. It's never made clear exactly what the writer is doing in Tainaron - why they're there, or how long they plan to be there. The letters are soaked in the melancholy of homesickness and the strangeness of living in a foreign city, made more explicit by the nonhuman nature of the city's inhabitants.

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