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Maria Takolander on “The End of Romance”

Tuesday, 12 May 2026    Books+Publishing
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In The End of Romance, Finnish Australian author Maria Takolander imagines a dystopian world in which boys are conscripted to the army at 16, never to return. Takolander spoke with Books+Publishing reviewer Nadia Heisler about writing from a place of environmental concern, drawing on myth and archetype, and interrogating entrenched...

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