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100	1		_aVälisalmi, Heikki, _d1886-1947
245	1	0	_aMaailman toinen puoli
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-07-27
505	0		_aVapaus ja vapaus -- Lakkautuspalkalla -- Hullu nainen -- Maailman toinen puoli -- Ihmeelliset ovat kohtalon tiet -- Siperian joulu -- Kun sanoma vallankumouksesta saapui Siperiaan -- Ihminen: maailma -- Sydänsuvi: sydänten suvi -- Pormestarin Jorri -- Kohtalon suosikki -- Iso ryhmä -- Monni -- Ratkaiseva askel -- Runoilijan herääminen.
508			_aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520			_aMaailman toinen puoli: Kuvauksia by Heikki Välisalmi is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The pieces trace human dignity and cruelty amid civil strife, poverty, madness, and exile, moving from Finland’s wartime fractures to Siberia’s bleak horizons. Themes of freedom, fate, and compassion recur as ordinary people—wounded youths, a disabled clerk, a fugitive madwoman, and exiles—are tested by history and by one another. The opening of the collection moves through stark vignettes: in a burning northern city’s hospital two young enemies, shot on opposite sides of the civil war, quietly discover they both fought for “freedom” and fade in fever. A frail, childlike clerk named Matti briefly wields petty authority during unrest, then slips into obscurity, finally writing passes for the dead before joining them. A madwoman flees a poorhouse to the forest’s safety while the village trembles behind locked doors. Ieri, a deformed ward whose weekly joy is scrounged tobacco, dies when a drunk playfully pours pipe dregs into his open mouth—an act tinged with bitter kinship. Fate’s loops tighten as a Finn robbed in Warsaw later shares a Siberian sled with the same cross‑dressing thief, now an exile heading toward an asylum, and a “Siberian Christmas” sets political prisoners beside a peasant whose lost father was a Finn. The section closes as news of revolution finally reaches the steppe, and two far‑off exiles erupt in disbelieving joy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cHelsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kansanvalta, 1929
653			_aShort stories, Finnish
653			_aFinnish fiction -- 20th century
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76577
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