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Authors: Kristina Carlson
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The Mussel Feast
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Mr Darwin's Gardener
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AUTHOR
Kristina Carlson, born in 1949, has published 16 books in her native Finland. She is a highly popular children's author and her three novels have assured her a wide adult readership and huge critical acclaim. She has won the Finlandia Prize and Finland's State Prize for Literature.
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TRANSLATORS
Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah unite as a multilingual mother-and-daughter translation team. Emily has an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in German Studies. Fleur, her mother, is Finnish and has translated both fiction and non-fiction for many years. Emily and Fleur have cooperated on translating the poetry of Helvi Juvonen and Sirkka Turkka and are the translators of
The Brothers
by Asko Sahlberg,
Peirene No. 7
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First published in English in 2013
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This ebook edition first published in 2013.
Originally published in 2009 by Otava Publishing Company with the Finnish titlr HERRA DARWINN PUUTARHURI.
Published in the English language by arrangement with the Otava Group Agency, Helsinki.
Copyright © 2009 Kristina Carlson
This translation © Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah 2013
This publication has been made possible with the financial support of FILI â Finnish Literature Exchange.
The right of Kristina Carslon to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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ISBNÂ 978-1-908670-12-0
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Designed by Sacha Davison-Lunt.
Cover illustration by Giuilia Morselli
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