Aikansa lapsipuoli

Juuso, a young graduate with large ideals and no head for business, leaves his country lodgings by tar boat for the town and the career everyone expects of him. Beside his practical friend Heikki, who knows how to get on, he finds that a dreamer can be a stepchild of his own time. Ivalo's novel follows them both through love, work and the compromises of the 1890s. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.