Land of Snow and Ashes
Petra Rautiainen author David Hackston translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:1st Dec '22
Should be back in stock very soon
This is a story of silenced histories, of dark secrets in a land of midnight sun. Finnish Lapland, 1947: Inkeri arrives in remote Enontekiö on a journalistic assignment, but her real motivation is more personal - this is where her husband was last seen before he disappeared during the war. As her probing questions meet with silence and hostility, Inkeri begins to investigate the fault-lines in this small community. Her burgeoning friendship with a young Sámi girl helps her piece together why the town does not want to dwell on the past, as traces of disturbing crimes emerge from the pristine landscape of snow and ice.
Reveals so much more about a war we thought we knew that it feels like a potted epic * Guardian *
Evocative... an amalgam of detective story and history, which absorbs the reader from start to finish * TLS *
A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history * Harvard Review *
A strong, intense thriller plot... depicts the controversial landscape of 1940s Lapland ambitiously and beautifully * Helsingin Sanomat *
Beautiful... a chapter in history that has rarely been visible in fiction... Rautiainen succeeds in describing the history of Finland's colonization and also gives a voice to the Sámi * Loostâš *
Stuns its readers with details of the events and conditions at the prison camps... A delicate and artfully composed story of painful, obscure and dangerous events in recent history; events which have been silenced up until now * Lapin Kansa *
ISBN: 9781782277378
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
288 pages