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Alastalon salissa
Alastalon salissa ("In Alastalo's Parlour") (1933) is a landmark Finnish novel by Volter Kilpi. The two-volume, 800-page story covers a period of only six hours, written in a stream-of-consciousness style similar to James Joyce's "Ulysses".
The central narrative of "Alastalon salissa" describes a meeting of a group of wealthy men from Kustavi, Western Finland, who are trying to decide whether to invest in a shipbuilding venture proposed by one of their number
"Alastalon salissa" (In the Parlour at Alastalo)
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