
Produced by Tapio Riikonen
KEVÄTKUKKA
MATHILDA ROOS
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In a Helsinki drawing‑room during a quiet Christmas, the Blumin family gathers. The patriarch, a respected merchant‑councilor, plays preference with his two sons while Colonel Dufva offers dry sarcasm. Servants whisper in an adjoining salon, their needlework stitching a gentle, restrained hum.
Henrietta Blum, the matriarch, watches over everything with keen eyes and flawless manners. Her daughters—Regina, a precise record‑keeper, and the quieter Constance—move through the room like practiced verses. Younger brother Eugen arrives, his handsome confidence hinting at a restlessness that could unsettle the order.
Beneath the polite surface, quiet tensions build as duty clashes with personal longing. Rivalries between brothers and unspoken expectations for the sisters suggest the holiday calm may soon give way to deeper change. Listeners are drawn into this finely observed portrait of early‑20th‑century Finnish life.
Language
fi
Duration
~7 hours (420K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
Nov 27, 2011
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1852–1908
A Swedish novelist and essayist of the 1880s, she wrote candidly about women’s lives, social pressure, and moral conflict. Her fiction later took a more religious turn, but it kept its interest in difficult inner lives.
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