Karjalan kankahilta I / Kertoelmia

A series of short narratives depicts life in an eastern rural community through a young narrator who recalls his father's descent from a respected factory overseer to a bitter, isolated smallholder. Family tensions determine the narrator's path as the father demands manual labor and limits schooling, while social decline, gossip, and loss of status bring humiliation and solitude. Vivid scenes move between domestic observation, long days spent fishing in remote lakes, and episodes of local unrest that reveal secret criminal dealings, together exploring how pride, poverty, and communal judgment shape personal choices.