Chillingly, one passage concerning the social benefits of human sterilization is taken from a real-world source, a Finnish magazine article from 1935. In additional to its more conventional narrative, which centers on Vanna, a woman with an addiction to chili peppers (it makes sense a skewed sort of sense, really), The Core of the Sun is made up of epistolary passages, dictionary entries, article excerpts, transcripts of hearings, scripts for instructional films, homework assignments, folk songs, and even fairytales that exist only in Sinisalo's twisted version of the world.
The ad for Fresh Scent is just one of the novel's many fragmentary asides. Wells' The Time Machine - as part of an oppressive national health scheme that crosses insidiously over into eugenics. In Sinisalo's nightmarish, alternate-reality vision of her homeland, a tyrannical patriarchy splits women into two classes - docile "eloi" and undesirable "morlocks," terms cheekily drawn from H. It's marketed to woman, although "marketed" is an understatement. It's for Fresh Scent, a personal fragrance available from the State Cosmetics Corporation of Finland. In the middle of Johanna Sinisalo's novel The Core of the Sun, the reader is interrupted by an ad. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Core of the Sun Author Johanna Sinisalo
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