Description
'Immediately enticing, endlessly charming, full of wit, magic and deep, moving humanity. It transported me to a world both familiar and utterly unknown, keeping me enthralled on every page' CLAIRE NORTH, AUTHOR OF THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST _____________ When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to the remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the pike in a local pond, or she and the love of her life will both die. This year her task is made even more difficult by a host of deadly supernatural creatures and the homicide detective on her trail. Can Elina catch the pike and lay to rest the curse that has been hanging over her head ever since a youthful love affair turned sour? Can Sergeant Janatuinen make it back to civilization in one piece? And just why is Lapland in summer so weird?
About the Author
JUHANI KARILA is an author and award-winning journalist who was born and raised in Finnish Lapland. Summer Fishing in Lapland is his debut novel. It was published in 2019, winning widespread acclaim and numerous prizes in Finland, and is being translated into 17 languages around the world. LOLA ROGERS is a literary translator living in Seattle. She has translated dozens of Finnish novels, short stories, poems, comics, and children's books, for which she has won two English PEN Awards and the Prometheus Award. Her translations for Pushkin Press include The Rabbit Back Literature Society and Secret Passages in a Hillside Town by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen.
Reviews
'Spiced with multiple storylines and all kinds of mythical creatures, this rich novel is a delight' - Helsingin Sanomat
'I feel like giving him 6 stars out of 5 - and this is exactly what I will do. Juhani Karila stretches the limits and borders of the world so wildly, that it seems only right for this literature critic to do the same' - Lapin Kansa
'A fix of love story and thriller, realism and fantasy, folk comedy and all sorts of popular beliefs sufficient to cure the worst case of humourlessness' - Raijan kirjareppu
'Karila's imagination is beyond words! The story is wild, absurd and crazy funny, writtenin a brilliant language and charged with a great sense of humour' - Kirja viekoon
Book Information
ISBN 9781782278931
Author Juhani Karila
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Pushkin Press
Publisher Pushkin Press
About the Author
JUHANI KARILA is an author and award-winning journalist who was born and raised in Finnish Lapland. Summer Fishing in Lapland is his debut novel. It was published in 2019, winning widespread acclaim and numerous prizes in Finland, and is being translated into 17 languages around the world. LOLA ROGERS is a literary translator living in Seattle. She has translated dozens of Finnish novels, short stories, poems, comics, and children's books, for which she has won two English PEN Awards and the Prometheus Award. Her translations for Pushkin Press include The Rabbit Back Literature Society and Secret Passages in a Hillside Town by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen.
Reviews
'Spiced with multiple storylines and all kinds of mythical creatures, this rich novel is a delight' - Helsingin Sanomat
'I feel like giving him 6 stars out of 5 - and this is exactly what I will do. Juhani Karila stretches the limits and borders of the world so wildly, that it seems only right for this literature critic to do the same' - Lapin Kansa
'A fix of love story and thriller, realism and fantasy, folk comedy and all sorts of popular beliefs sufficient to cure the worst case of humourlessness' - Raijan kirjareppu
'Karila's imagination is beyond words! The story is wild, absurd and crazy funny, writtenin a brilliant language and charged with a great sense of humour' - Kirja viekoon
Book Information
ISBN 9781782278931
Author Juhani Karila
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Pushkin Press
Publisher Pushkin Press
