January 25, 2007
Text message novel published in Finland
A novel in which the entire narrative consists of mobile phone text messages was published Wednesday in Finland, reports USA Today via Gear Live
"The Last Messages tells the story of a fictitious IT-executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.
His messages, and the replies — roughly 1,000 altogether — are listed in chronological order in the 332-page novel written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala. The texts are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in regular SMS traffic.
Sari Havukainen, spokeswoman at Finnish publishing house Tammi, said the company is considering translating the book into other languages."
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