Reviews

Sara is a believer: she believes passionately in the power of books.

Nordenhök writes with a very sensual and poetic pen that reveals layer after layer of what went on in a family living in pre-war Indonesia.

This trilogy about Siri, her family and friends provide both exciting reading and critical perspectives on key problems in society today.

A disquieting feeling sets in ... Anything that is mentioned only casually ends up making you scared.

This novel explores growing up and growing out of childhood certainties, but also the roads to growing into woman amidst the lying and the beauty.

Exceptionally intelligent as well as an intellectual, Donner displays sheer brainpower, which imposes shape, style and interest on the extraordinary miscellanea of his life.

Written in elegantly simple prose, with just the right degree of 1930s formality in the dialogue, the novel successfully fuses history-as-it-happens with the stories of the individuals leading their lives at this particular juncture.

This collection of short stories, awarded the Yle literary prize, comprises a series of portraits set in the 1950s–80s, and many of the characters are Finnish parents still suffering from the after-effects of the wars with Russia, or the next generation reared by such parents.

One of the Nordic region’s most interesting writers of youth fiction.

Fagerholm does not tell a story as much as evoke a world.

The jacket blurb of this spare but unsettling novella pointedly asks: what happened?

An atmospheric novel set on the fictional island of Ör, off Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s native Åland Islands, finds this seasoned and much-lauded writer on top form.

A Gothic celebration of the city in the form of a vampire novel.

The year is 2035...

Each of the 32 poems in this little volume could have an explication devoted to it.

As in the best fantasy novels, the possibility of unknowable forces on the very fringe of our perceivable reality lends depth and tension to Korkea-aho’s novel.

Love and multiculturalism in Finland in the early twenty-first century.

‘Madness’ is not just an idea, but rather the essence of the book.