It is a beautiful day in late summer; the sky is blue and filled with brightly-coloured hot-air balloons. A man…
the nordic riveter
This is the opening of Helsinki Nocturne (“Yhdyntä”), a novella set in 1944, in a wintry, war-time city under attack…
One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, The Core of the Sun is set in…
It is 1938, some twenty-one years into Finnish independence, and the scarred layers of Helsinki society are continuing to reconcile…
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…