Pirkko Saisio

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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2023
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Book List in Order: 3 titles

  • The Red Book of Farewells

    For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing accou...

  • Lowest Common Denominator

    For readers of Tove Jansson and Eileen Myles, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia-prize-winning author of The Red Book of FarewellsWriting in the wake of her father’s death, the narrator of Pi...

  • Backlight

    Pirkko Saisio, now a teenager, can’t decide which she hates most: God, her father, or her growing breasts. Grandpa has moved into the room long promised to her, and Mother, overworked and distant, tries to keep the peace between her headstr...



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Pirkko Saisio has published 3 books.

The next book by Pirkko Saisio, Backlight, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Pirkko Saisio, The Red Book of Farewells, was published in May 2023.

No. Pirkko Saisio does not write books in series.
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