Kotkat

audiobook

Kotkat

by Hilja Haahti

FI·~4 hours·16 chapters

Chapters

16 total
1

KOTKAT

0:04
2

SISÄLLYS:

0:16
3

I.

10:58
4

II.

14:29
5

III.

14:38
6

IV.

12:57
7

V.

17:03
8

VI.

16:29
9

VII.

20:26
10

VIII.

22:55

Description

A young girl sits at a piano, the dim light wrapping her in a heavy veil as she reaches for a melody that exists only in her own heart. The music she drifts through feels less a composition than a living pulse, echoing the restless yearning of a wanderer on a desert road. As the notes rise, they awaken a vision of soaring eagles and twin stars, hinting at a destiny that stretches far beyond the cramped room she inhabits.

The fragile atmosphere shifts when a stern aunt pushes the girl toward a prescribed lesson, while the girl’s own desire to escape through music grows louder. Tension crackles between duty and the fierce, uncharted longing that drives her toward something greater—perhaps the promise of freedom that the eagles represent. In these opening moments, listeners are drawn into a quiet struggle between the weight of expectation and the soaring possibility of a new, uncharted life.

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Language

fi

Duration

~4 hours (246K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Anna Siren and Tapio Riikonen

Release date

2019-10-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Hilja Haahti

Hilja Haahti

1874–1966

A Finnish teacher, writer, and translator, she wrote for both children and adults and was especially known for her warm, Christian-themed books. Her long career reached from the late 19th century well into the 20th, making her a familiar name in Finnish literary life for decades.

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