Köyhää kansaa is Minna Canth's short novel from 1886. The Holpainen family is poor. The parents have no work, with four children, one of them very sick. The neighbors try to help them, but they also have their own problems. Mari, the mother, is overwhelmed by her family's difficulties to survive. Why nobody cares for the poor?
This edition, part of the Finnish Easy Reading series, is written in simplified Finnish, suitable for readers with intermediate Finnish language skills. The book contains also vocabulary footnotes and a practice section with questions and vocabulary exercises.
Köyhää kansaa is Minna Canth's short novel from 1886. The Holpainen family is poor. The parents have no work, with four children, one of them very sick. The neighbors try to help them, but they also have their own problems. Mari, the mother, is overwhelmed by her family's difficulties to survive. Why nobody cares for the poor?
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