Lost Fingers
Rights
Rights sold: Estonian, Polish
Awards
Shortlisted for Estonia's Cultural Endowment Annual Award for Literature (Best Book of Fiction) 2020
Best designed Estonian books of 2020
Special prize of Rahva Raamat 2020
Best designed Estonian books of 2020
Special prize of Rahva Raamat 2020
About the Book
Lost Fingers
is a collection of thirteen short stories – at once comic and tragic – that
deal with insecurity and the fear of being second-rate, with the desire to fit
in with the surrounding world. Raud gives a voice to colourful and thoroughly
human characters with their quirks, worries, and dreams: among others there is
a literature teacher who falls in love with an opera singer afraid of mice, a
dearly departed writing letters from beyond the grave and an architect obsessed
with the toe of Michelangelo’s David. All of them act according to the best of
their ability yet succeed at the expense of something important. Despite a
sorrowful undertone Raud’s sharp sense of the absurd and irony-tinged
compassion leave room for light-heartedness and the hope that even tomorrow
things might take a turn for the better.
"A series of unfortunate stories in a handsome
illustrated edition. Between these covers there appears one of my all-time
favourites in the genre of fictional correspondences: “Letters from beyond the
grave"".
Indrek Koff, Kultuur ERR
Indrek Koff, Kultuur ERR
"Lost Fingers contains a lot of
thought-provoking moments, albeit humour as well, but this is somewhat a humour
through tears."
Maia Tammjärv, Gogol
Maia Tammjärv, Gogol
"13 first-person stories filled with symbols, imagery,
and allegory. An astonishing ability of transformation from woman to man, from
young to old. The author’s own illustrations give her words a pleasing visual
dimension."
Reet Weidebaum, Kultuur ERR
Reet Weidebaum, Kultuur ERR
