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Wikipedia article
'The Same River' (Estonian: 'Seesama jgi') is a semi-autobiographical novel by Estonian author Jaan Kaplinski. It was first published in 2007.
The book describes a summer in the early 60's in the city of Tartu from the viewpoint of an unnamed student, who seeks to attain sexual and mystical knowledge. He is influenced by a Teacher, a theologian and poet, who is spied upon by the communist authorities.
'The Same River' is Kaplinski's first proper novel and took almost twelve years to write. Translations appeared in English (2009), Swedish ('Samma flod', 2009), Finnish ('Sama joki', 2010), Spanish ('El mismo ro', 2011), Hungarian ('Ugyanaz a foly', 2012), Latvian ('T pati upe', 2012) and Lithuanian ('Ta pati up', 2018).
Category:Estonian novels
Category:2007 novels
Category:Tartu in fiction
Category:Novels set in the 1960s
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