It is 1938, some twenty-one years into Finnish independence, and the scarred layers of Helsinki society are continuing to reconcile…
October 2017 – Nordic Countries
Based on a brief description of the plot, you could be forgiven for mistaking Pajtim Statovci’s debut novel, My Cat…
The setting of Cruel is the Night, the first of the Finnish author and editor Karo Hämäläinen’s novels to be…
It is perhaps fair to say that the recent phenomenon of Nordic Noir – sparked by popular TV shows such…
Verse. That’s the genre; it says so on the cover of Ideal Events. The pages lie before me like bedsheets,…
The premise of Jens Christian Grøndahl’s Often I Am Happy is an intriguing one: Ellinor is recently widowed and stands…