Hävittäjä

audiobook

Hävittäjä

by Konrad Lehtimäki

FI·~1 hours

Chapters

Description

In a quiet dining room of a small Finnish town, an aging scholar sits alone, nursing a half‑filled cup of coffee while the world outside trembles with the echo of distant gunfire. A mysterious package arrives, containing a silk‑wrapped photograph, a ring with a red stone, and the torn pages of his youngest son’s diary—reminders of a life once shared and now shattered by war. As memories flood back, the old man is forced to confront the lingering ache of choices made and promises broken.

The narrative unfolds through the son’s candid entries, offering a stark contrast between the front‑line’s brutal reality and the father’s isolated anguish at home. Readers are drawn into a tense, introspective journey that balances the harshness of conflict with the fragile hope clinging to ink‑stained pages. With each turn, the story invites listeners to grapple with love, loss, and the unsettling question of what truth lies hidden beneath the surface of a seemingly ordinary life.

Details

Language

fi

Duration

~1 hours (113K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Kuopio: Savon Kansan Kirjapaino, 1921.

Credits

Tapio Riikonen

Release date

2023-08-24

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Konrad Lehtimäki

Konrad Lehtimäki

1883–1937

A self-taught Finnish writer and political firebrand, he drew on hard labor, travel, and poverty to create fiction with strong social feeling. His life moved between literature, activism, and public service, giving his work an unusually lived-in intensity.

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