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|title=The Brothers

|sort=Brothers

|publisher=Peirene Press Ltd

|date=January 2012

|summary=A tidy little treasure, in the form of a modern Finnish piece of historical fiction with a punch.

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We're in the family home of Erik, in Finland, in 1809. It's large enough to have been the most impressive farmstead when his mother was taken there as a young bride, and she still lives there, with an elderly retainer, Erik, Erik's untrusting wife and some other servants. One night the brother of the family, Henrik, returns, and all the bad blood gets spilled. Not just about a neighbour's horse and hotheaded plans for it, not just over a marriage, and not even about the fact that when Sweden and Russia fought over Finland and the territory changed hands, the brothers were on opposing sides.