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These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away

Name: These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away
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Pipsa Lonka, Kristian London (Translator)

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These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away is a critically lauded, award-winning climate change play that is also immensely readable in book format. The play takes place on a coastline, in a place that strictly speaking isn't even a village. Water around the place is rising slowly, really slowly, without appearing to form an actual threat, although the danger of flooding is real. The world of this observant and witty play is constructed from pictures that form their own little worlds; slow, sometimes almost motionless, like photos. The narrator's voice guides us as we follow the lives of a group of melancholy people who all know each other inside out. Some of them still have dreams. Others just want to float through their lives. Pipsa Lonka's play is one of the most internationally successful Finnish plays of recent years. It has been produced to great reviews in multiple countries around Europe. Heidelberg Stückemarkt Prize, Germany Lea Award, Finland New Baltic Drama Competition, Baltic countries "An exceptionally wonderful Finnish play" (Helsingin Sanomat) "An endearing dystopia" (Lea Award jury) "Captivating, makes you laugh, touches you and offers food for thought" (Turun Sanomat)

109 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2020

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