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Riikka Pulkkinen‘s books have been sold to 17 countries. An English version of her second critically acclaimed novel, True, has recently been published in the USA; in total the book has already been published in 10 countries, including in Spain and France. In France the book has already sold over 45.000 copies in a short time since its launch. The film rights of True have been sold to Vertigo Productions and a theatre play that premiered at KOM Theatre (Helsinki) in November 2011 has become an audience favourite.

True, by Riikka Pulkkinen (2010), 333 pp.

Was it just another affair of a married artist? Or was it a betrayal ruining a little girl’s life? Who speaks the truth?

Elsa is dying. Her husband Martti and daughter Eleonoora are trying to get used to the idea of losing her, although they’re crushed with sorrow. As her mother’s existence becomes more fragile, the anchors of Eleonoora’s childhood memories are slipping away.

Eleonoora’s daughter Anna easily loses herself in pondering the fates of passers-by. For her the world is full of stories. She learns by chance the story of Eeva, her mother’s nanny, of which the grandparents have been silent about for years.

Eeva’s forgotten story opens layer by layer. The young woman’s voice carries us back to the 1960s, a time when the pill had been invented but the pick-up line hadn’t. A tale of a mother and daughter unfolds, a story of how memory can deceive us, because it is the most merciful thing to do.

This much awaited second novel by the acclaimed author of The Border is a conversational novel about the deceptiveness of memory, and the mercy and love that can come from a lie.

 

So this is ‘True’: Riikka Pulkkinen’s novel is some of the finest literature I have read in a long time – Helsingin Sanomat

Veja também uma entrevista da autora na France 24 (canal francês de notícias no idioma inglês), onde ela fala sobre deste livro e um pouco sobre o filme que está sendo feito baseado neste livro (a entrevista começa em 07.30): http://f24.my/R1ds22

 

Rights sold to: Australia (Scribe), Denmark (Gyldendal), Estonia (Pegasus), Finland (Otava), France (Albin Michel), Germany (Ullstein), Hungary (Gondolat), Italy (Garzanti), Latvia (Mansards), Lithuania (Gimtasis Žodis), The Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Norway (Gyldendal), Poland (Noir sur Blanc), Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Norstedt) and USA (Other Press).

The Book of Strangers, by Riikka Pulkkinen (2012)
A brand new book from the author of the international best-seller True.

“A person can set foot in a new land. The land will receiveher. Yet she remains a stranger as she is a stranger unto herself, as long as she carries within her that voiceless unknown that bears no name.”

Maria, a parish pastor, leaves her life in Finland behind and journeys to New York, wracked by a geated internal debate between responsibility and the need to escape. There she meets a woman who opens the door to the world of dance and she gains the courage to reflect on where she’s really from: that northern village where the repressive religious atmoshpere nearly made her invisible, or some more distant place?

Eventually, Maria is also able to turn her gaze inwards. What is the secret she has borne with her across the ocean? What evil was done to that little girl whose diary Maria carries with her?

The Novel pulses with the restless rhythms of dance and the density of haunting night-time memories. Riikka Pulkkinen brings intelligence and all senses to bear in her treatment of alienation, religion and corporality.

Riikka Pulkkinen’s international publishers are: Finland (Otava), Czech republic (Motto/Albatros Media), Denmark(Gyldendal), The Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Australia (Scribe), USA (Other Press), Estonia (Pegasus), France (Albin Michel), Germany (Ullstein), Hngary (Gondolat), Korea (Balgunsesang), Latvia (Mansards), Lithuania (Gimtasis Zodis), Italy (Garzanti), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Poland (Noir sur Planc), Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Norstedt).

 

 

 

 

 

Herbjorg Wassmo (born 1942) has earned her position and popularity in Norway and abroad through her ability as a powerful storyteller with a special care for the exposed and vulnerable characters. Wassmo’s voice has a poetic and evocative power, taking the reader very close to the disintegration of the small human being and her fight for dignity. She creates very original female characters. Wassmo received the Nordic Council’s Prize 1987 and has received numerous other awards and recognitions, such as being knighted in France into L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. Her books have been sold in 24 countries.

Dina’s Book, by Herbjorg Wassmo (1989)

This European classic is a powerful story that takes place in the middle of the 19th century, and the location is the coast line of Northern Norway. At the age of five Dina accidentally caused the death of her mother, resulting in Dina losing temporarily the power of speech from feelings of rejection and guilt. Being seen as wild and unmanageable, Dina is sent from home to be raised in a poor farmer’s family. She only begins to talk again after returning home years later. There, at the age of 16 she is married to a wealthy landowner, Jacob, who is as old as her father. With Jacob Dina learns about the joys of sex and wine, but soon Jacob dies in an accident in which she, again, played a part. As a young and pregnant widow Dina takes over the estate – unusual for a woman in this era – and proves to be a strong woman, despite being haunted by two ghosts, but the arrival of a Russian traveller causes emotional turmoil and turns Dina into a woman obsessed.

The brilliantly written characters and the many surprises in the plot make this European classic a joy to read. The 2002 film “I am Dina”, with Gérard Depardieu etc., is based on this book.

Dina’s Book was followed by Dina’s Son (Lykkens sønn) and Karna’s Legacy (Karnas arv), forming The Dina Trilogy.

Rights to Wassmo’s books have been sold to 24 languages.

 

Nikolaj Frobenius made his debut with the poetry and essay collection, Whirl/Virvl, in 1986. He received his breakthrough both in Norway and abroad in 1996 with his novel Latour’s Catalogue, and his books have been translated into 14 languages. Frobenius studied film at The London Institute and has written several film scripts, including the thriller Insomnia (1997), which was subsequently produced in a new version in Hollywood. Frobenius’ trademark is an assured talent and a linguistic skill beyond the norm. In his writing he switches between real, fictitious and historical scenarios with supreme confidence and moves effortless in time and space. A central theme in several of his novels is the juxtaposition of the present and the past.

You Were so Deeply Loved, by Nikolaj Frobenius (2011)

A totally absorbing and brilliant new novel from the internationally acclaimed Frobenius.

For years, Dr. Victor Ulvdal served as a respected and loved general practitioner in Oslo. He has also been a supportive, caring father for his son Emil since the boy’s mother disappeared on a mission for the Norwegian Agency for Development Aid when Emil was seven years old. At 85 Viktor is still in good shape, an independent elderly gentleman. Until the day he suffers from a stroke. He is hospitalized, and then released. A new stroke, new hospitalization, release, rehabilitation, released again, a heart attack, hospital, temporary residence in a care centre, new release.

Viktor grows weaker and weaker, more and more dependent on help, but still they keep returning him to an empty home. And the illness changes his personality. The once amiable gentleman becomes unpredictable and furious – and Emil has to weather it all, has to suffer the pain of seeing his father decay, the despair and powerlessness of being next of kin to a man who refuses to die.

First published in 2011.

 

 

Maria Ernestam is one of Sweden’s finest novelists with a language of her own. Her books are family dramas, sometimes with a touch of magic or some other twist. She has often been called a Swedish Isabel Allende. She is a rising star and she conquers country by country; her books have been sold to more than 10 countries. This summer (2011) her novel Always with You hit the bestseller lists in Germany and she sold 45.000 copies in hardcover, during a period more than 450 books per day! For this title she is nominated for a French prize “Prix Littéraire Inter-CE 11”.

The sales figures grow with every title. So far, Ernestam’s best-selling title is Buster’s Ears. It sold 100 000 copies in Sweden alone and the rights have been sold to over ten countries. In Taiwan it soon became an internet buzz and climbed the bestseller list. In October of 2011 her book Buster’s Ears received the very important Booksellers Prize in France, the “Prix de Pages des Libraires”.

There is something about the mixture of darkness and humor that makes Ernestam’s books so irresistible books – Camilla Läckberg

Buster’s Ears, by Maria Ernestam (2006)

The book starts with the sentence “I was seven years old when I decided I had to kill my mother, but I turned seventeen before actually fulfilling my choice.” The story is a mother and daughter drama that one will not forget after reading it. The mother, totally incapable of caring for her daughter and the young girl, desperately trying to get her mother to recognize her. The girl gets the tools to handle life that her mother delivers to her, she has nothing else to use. With these tools she tries to create a life of her own far away from the mother. When this doesn’t work the daughter needs to find other people to rely on, which of course also drives the mother green with envy. The story is told in two times, both when Eva, the girl, is young, and also when she is a grown up woman, living in a marriage based on an unusual foundation.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey.

Always with you, by Maria Ernestam (2008)

Suddenly nothing is the same. Inga’s husband has a heart attack – and dies. For two years she pushes her grief aside, doesn’t show her sorrow to anyone and buries herself in work. But a mean comment makes the ground open under her feet. She flees to her family’s summer house on the island of Marstrand, to get the peace and quiet she needs to find a way back to life.

By mere accident she finds an old box. It is full of papers, newspaper clips and at the bottom there is a letter, postmarked in Mombasa, Kenya 1916. This attracts Inga’s attention, especially by some cryptic lines at the end of the letter.

With an eagerness she has not experienced for a long time, she begins her search. To get an explanation to the letter and to get away from her own presence. Her investigation leads her back into her family history, to an event in the shadow of World War I. And she understands that another woman’s fate has had more effect on her own life than she could ever have imagined.

Rights sold to: Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Turkey, Sweden.

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Thomas Enger (b. 1973) published his first crime novel Burned (Skinndød) in early 2010. It was introduced to international publishers ahead of publication and immediately captured the interest of Nordic, European, US and Asian publishers; today the foreign sales of translation rights count 17 countries. Burned is the first of six books in a character-driven series of crime novels mirroring the crime reporter Henning Juul’s life drama and a very contemporary Oslo scenario. It plummets the depths of Oslo’s underbelly, skewers the corridors of dirty politics and nails the fast-moving world of 24-hour news. All this, plus a string of extremely brutal murders. All six books can be read individually, with separate crime cases, but there is also an overlapping plot across the six volumes of Henning Juul trying to find out how his son died.

Such was the success of the first volume of the six book series, that the German booksellers ordered 38.000 copies ahead of the launch of the second volume, Phantom Pain, in 2011

• Burned is a significant acquisition for Faber’s growing crime list. It is a novel that combines the thrill of the best page-turner, with a deep psychological portrait of this wonderful character Henning Juul.  – Angus Cargill of Faber & Faber (UK).

• New Stars of Nordic Noir… [He is] one of the most unusual and intense talents in the field. – The Independent
• This debut from Norwegian journalist and composer Thomas Enger has real strengths: the careful language, preserved in the fine translation; and its haunted journalist hero … This could be an intriguing series. – John O’Connell, The Guardian
• Enger is a fine talent, and Burned is a reminder of exactly why we love Scandi crime. – bookdagger.co.uk

Burned, by Thomas Enger (2010)

A first time crime novel with success: Translation rights sold to 17 countries.

A lone tent on Ekeberg Plain in Oslo contains the half buried corpse woman. She has been stoned to death, has whip marks on her back, and one hand has been chopped off.

Internet journalist Henning Juul lost his son in a fire two years ago. He back on the job again now, and is assigned the Ekeberg case. It doesn’t take the police long to come up with a suspect, but Juul quickly realizes that the whole case is far more complicated. In his quest for answers he catches the attention of some brutal individuals. When a new murder is committed, it dawns on Juul that he better find the truth before even more lives are lost. Including his own.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, The Netherlands, France, Netherlands, UK (Faber & Faber), USA (Simon & Schuster / Atria Books), Poland, Hungary, Korea, Iceland, Romania, Turkey.

Phantom Pain, by Thomas Enger (2011)

If you find out who set me up, I’ll tell you what happened the day your son died. That is the message crime reporter Henning Juul receives from the jailed former extortionist Tore Pulli. He is convicted for a murder he claims he did not commit and he wants Henning to find the real killer.

Truth has never meant more for Henning Juul. And in order to find the truth he has to dive deep into an impenetrable world surrounded by a haze of myth. Uncovering more questions than answers, Henning wonders whether Pulli is to be trusted. Soon he realizes that he has to find not one but several killers. Killers who have never been more dangerous than they are now.

This is an independent sequel to the internationally acclaimed novel Burned. An epic crime drama and one step further towards solving the riddle of who killed Henning Juul’s son.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, UK (Faber & Faber), USA (Simon & Schuster / Atria Books), Poland, Korea, Iceland.

 

Matti Rönkä (born 1959) writes totally unique crime novels. His books have been acknowledged especially for their humoristic language that contains a sharp societal point of view. Rönkä was awarded with the Finnish crime novel prize in 2006 as well as the German prize for crime fiction (Deutscher Krimi Preis) in 2008. Furthermore, in 2007 Rönkä was awarded the Glass Key Award (Glasnyckel) for the best Nordic crime novel of the year.

It is a matter of opinion as to whether or not Matti Rönkä’s books can be counted as crime fiction at all. Although they are set in the world of crime, but fleetingly, in a most unusual setup. There are no police detectives who solve crimes, no investigative reporters, no psychotherapists. Instead there is Viktor Kärppä, a Russian of Finnish extraction, former Special Forces soldier in the Soviet Army. He fixes things for his countrymen and runs his business on the hazy side of law. Apart from social ills, Rönkä’s books deal with universal themes such as jealousy, betrayal, brotherhood and friendship. His books are also not dark and depressing like many other crime novels, on the contrary they are light and full of humor.

Having left the Soviet Army and moved to Finland, Viktor Kärppä is now a wheeling and dealing construction entrepreneur in his new homeland, without much success. Viktor Kärppä sees himself as a reliable businessman. He arranges permits and sees deals through, he does not steal or become involved in drugs, and he does not kill, even if he does have a killer’s face. Although he has settled down in Finland, his past in the Red Army Special Forces and as a gangster’s henchman return to haunt him – and not only in his dreams.

Matti Rönkä is the winner of the prestigious Glass Key Award and Clue of the Year Award, both given for the best crime novels of the year. In 2008, his debut novel, A Man with a Killer’s Face, was ranked third in Germany’s most important crime fiction award, the Deutscher Krimi Preis.

A Man with a Killer’s Face, by Matti Rönkä (2002)

In the first book of the series, A Man With a Killer’s Face, a husband hires Kärppä to find his lost Estonian wife. The well-paid job wreaks havoc with Kärppä’s orderly life and suddenly nothing is as it used to be. Before he knows it, Kärppä has been drawn into the international drug business. A new girlfriend, Marja, brings additional color to his life. For this independent-minded academic woman, Kärppä’s businesses seem shady to say the least, and does not bode well for a healthy relationship.

A Man with a Killer’s Face was the runner-up in the competition for the title of the best crime novel of the year in Germany. According to the jury, Rönkä’s book shows that ‘Finnish crime fiction is not as gloomy as in the other Nordic countries, but has a more joyful, Karelian streak to it.’ The jury also noted the political topicality of the novel set in Helsinki, Tallinn and Russia, since crimes linking Finland with Russia and the Baltic countries have not been addressed before in fiction. A Man With a Killer’s Face was third in the Deutscher Krimi Preis shortlist of best crime fiction of 2008.

An effective story and amazing diving into the Scandinavian society – Le Parisien, France

Rights sold to: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, France, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary.

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Mari Jungstedt, b. 1962, author of the beloved, bestselling crime series featuring police detective Anders Knutas, has since the first novel in the series, Den du inte ser (‘Unseen’) 2003, been recognized to be part of the elite of Swedish crime writers. Praised for her intelligent plots, fast pace and excruciating suspense all set on the exotic island Gotland, her books have so far sold more than one million copies in Sweden alone (population 9 million). They have been translated into more than fifteen languages and adapted into German TV-films with over five million viewers per show. With the beautiful yet dramatic landscape of Gotland serving as a setting, Mari Jungstedt successfully crafts macabre acts of violent crime against an innocent environment. Parallel to this, she runs, with equal success a first-rate drama with focus on relation problems and she sketches a picture of the frail human conditions, mirrored in the island.

Unseen, by Mari Jungstedt (2003)

The picturesque island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season when a young woman is murdered. Suspicion falls on her husband – the couple had been seen fighting the evening before. Inspector Anders Knutas is hoping it will be a straight-forward case; the local authorities are hoping so too, but more out of an interest in protecting the tourist trade than any desire to see justice served. Then another victim is discovered, again she is a young woman and she has been murdered in the same chilling manner. Inspector Knutas must face up to the horrifying prospect that there is a serial killer loose on the island. Knutas, aided by investigative journalist Johan Berg, begins to piece together the tragic history that unites the two victims, and alarmingly points to more murders to come. The killer remains unknown, moving freely, unseen, on the island.

Rights sold to: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, UK (Doubleday), France, Spain (Maeva), Catalonia, Portugal (Bertrand), Russia, Poland, Turkey, Czech Republic.

Film rights: Germany, Network Movie.

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Tove Alsterdal made a success with her debut novel Women on the Beach, a story about a woman desperately seeking for her missing husband. The struggle leads her right into the modern slave trade. The novel received tremendous response and the media praised the language as well as the author’s skillful description of characters and cleverness in creating a thrilling intrigue.

Tove Alsterdal is a driven stylist with ability to throw a merciless light on contemporary society. Her descriptions are so well depicted, you feel like you are right in the middle of the setting with the characters all around you. For everyone who enjoys a page turner and a straightforward view of reality, this is a must read.

Women on the Beach, by Tove Alsterdal (2009)

Terese wakes up at dawn on a beach in southern Spain. As she stumbles down to the water she steps on the dead body of an African man. Under the cover of night a woman sneaks onto land in the neighbouring harbour. She was smuggled across the sea and has been saved from the waves. Her name is Mary, but not for much longer.

In New York, Ally is trying to get hold of her husband who is a well-known freelance journalist. He is in Paris writing about human trafficking and slavery. Ally faces her fear of enclosed spaces and boards a plane across the Atlantic to find him. This takes her on a journey through the deepest dark of Europe, and into a confrontation with her own past.

Women on the Beach is a black thriller about three women and three lives undergoing brutal change. Three paths will cross; three paths leading beyond the influence of any law, where evil holds sway behind beautiful facades and where people can be bought or sold, become someone else, or die.

The story takes place in five countries and in the borderland of totally different worlds. Although this is fiction, a lot of what takes place in the book has happened in real life. Yesterday, today – and probably tomorrow as well.

Two more novels are already planned, although not as a traditional series.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Finland, France (Actes Sud), Germany, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.

 

Åsa Lantz’s political page-turners knock the breath right out of her readers. Her debut novel, Attire, received attention due to its high literary quality disguised as an easy read. Burning engagement to society’s problems can be seen in everything Åsa Lantz writes: novels, television and screenplays. She wants to explore human capacity to do good and to make dreams come true.

The Genesis Trilogy is Åsa Lantz’s latest project, a psychological and political thriller series. Whatever Happened to That Sweet Little Girl (2010) is the first title in the series and is an impressing start on something that seems to be exactly what everyone, both readers and publishers, desire right now.

Whatever Happened to That Sweet Little Girl, by Åsa Lantz (2010)

Whatever Happened to That Sweet Little Girl is a touching, exciting and deeply shocking story about human trafficking, slavery, and love. Meet power-hungry parents, cynical industrialists, brave fellow humans and coward authorities.

The young and mysterious Yi Yong wants to create a debate, she wants to chock and she wants revenge. She has waited a long time to tell the truth. Now she is about to reveal what she has been through since she as a fifteen year old girl was sent from her poor family in China to Sweden with promises about a good education. No one will be spared and Yi wants to deliver the truth to the Swedish audience, on television prime time, merciless and straight into the Swedish family rooms. She will tell the story why she is genitally mutilated. She will tell about Chinese relations with a world known Swedish fashion company and about the role the Swedish Government has played. But the same night as the first episode is aired on Swedish television, she gets a brutal warning and has to disappear.

Viggo Sjöström, a dramatist and director at the Gothenburg Theatre, reluctantly becomes her ally. The charismatic Viggo is forced to leave his cozy middle class life. But despite the fact that he is thrown into a cruel reality, he has the courage to keep on dreaming about the future, about a child’s room with funny wall papers, and about grand parties and maybe even his own theatrical success.

Many are responsible for what happened to Yi and her Chinese friends. And they will not let the truth be exposed. Many will do anything in their power to quiet her down…

Whatever Happened to That Sweet Little Girl is the first part in the Genesis Trilogy, a psychological thriller series with the ambition both to entertain and to make the world a better place.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Estonia, The Faroe Islands, Finland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden.

 

Håkan Östlundh brings his readers right into the action, amuses them, makes them nervous, angry, happy and sad with his knife-sharp skill visualizing scenes and creating characters. Not a single detail in the text is left hanging; everything has its reason. In his detective novels, he’s not just interested in his heroes but also allows his criminals their side of the story, so that the reader understands reasons underlying the evil they encounter.  In reviews on Håkan Östlundh’s crime he is always acknowledged for writing great literature and not only crime.

Håkan Östlundh’s books have a touch of both Joyce Carol Oates and Dennis Lehane. His stories are based on intrigue but his details make the scenes come alive. Once you sit down to read one of his novels, you won’t want to put it down, and once you’re finished, you won’t forget them, perhaps because the solutions are not simple and morality not as clear-cut as you would imagine.

Sacrifice, Håkan Östlundh (2008)

A medical helicopter is flying over the Baltic Sea carrying policeman Fredrik Broman. Broman has a serious head wound and no one knows whether he is going to make it. Three weeks earlier, two corpses have been found, murdered, on a farm near Levide. One woman, killed by a blow to the head, and one man, cut to pieces so severely that he is unrecognizable. At the time they were found on the living room’s bloody wooden parquet floor, they’d already been dead for two days. The owner of the property, Arvid Traneus, had just returned home from Japan after many years consulting for a large corporation. At first, the police assume that he’s the murdered man, since the woman at the corpse’s side has been identified as Arvid Traneus’ wife. However, the body proves to be that of Arvid’s cousin, and the investigation has to switch gears, while the suspects seem to have disappeared without a trace. Östlundh has created an unusual novel from the classical detective genre, holding the reader in suspense from first page to last.

Nominated to Best Swedish Crime Novel 2008 by the Swedish Crime Writer Academy.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, USA (St. Martin’s Pres).

 

Inger Wolf writes crime novels with creeping tension. It is her interest for the dark sides of humans that inspires Inger Wolf and through writing crime novels she tries to understand human evil and violent behaviour. In her classic crime novels the reader meets ordinary people who for various reasons crosses over the line and commits actions which seem inhuman but in the light of the story still seem understandable. Her crime novels tend to be more brutal than others in the genre. After working as a translator for many years, Inger Wolf debuted 2006 with the praised Black Indian Summer (Svart sensommar). She received the Danish Detective Academy’s debutant award the same year.

Inger Wolf likes and respects her detective duo, Daniel Trokic – Danish Croatian who suffers from his home country’s history of war – and Lisa Kornelius, IT-specialist almost made guru, who longs to work on the field. Their devotion and cooperation leads the dialogue and situation driven stories forward. Åhus might seem calm, but evil is waiting in the most unexpected places.

The Wasp Nest, by Inger Wolf (2011)

In an empty house in Århus a teenage boy is found murdered. The crime scene shows a brutal assassination. Not only is the boy beaten, his lips are cut off and over and around the body there are piles of dry, dead wasps. Vice Superintendent Daniel Trokic is called home from his Christmas vacation in Croatia. Together with his colleague Lisa Kornelius and the rest of the team the investigating work takes off and the group quickly realizes they are dealing with a murderer who won’t stop at killing once. And what is it they boy’s parents are hiding and what are the insects doing at the crime scene?

At the same time, a patient escapes from the psychiatric hospital in Risskov. Reports about the murder have brought back memories for the young man, who in addition is obsessed by wasps. Events from a long time ago are surfacing and maybe the answer is to be found in a garden shed by another house, far away from the crime scene. More murders occur and as the investigation goes on, the police are drawn deeper and deeper into all the grotesque events. No one is safe, not even Daniel Trokic. The Wasp Nest is the fourth stand alone crime novel in the series about the Danish/Croatian vice Superintendent Daniel Trokic and his intelligent colleague Lisa Kornelius.

Rights to Inger Wolf’s crime novels have been sold to: Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.

 

Gunnar Staalesen is one of the kings of the crime novel genre in Norway. His series started in 1977 and features the hard-boiled but sympathetic private eye Varg Veum from the historical city of Bergen, has sold more than 1 million copies in Norway alone, as well as 200,000 DVDs. 6 novels have been filmed. His books about the private eye Varg Veum are published in several countries, among them England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Russia.

Staalesen’s basic idea was to create a crime noire private eye, adding his own social criticism located in the Bergen scenario – under the Nordic light – and this was a success from the very first novel. Varg Veum steps forward as a 68 generation idealist, a divorced, slightly alchoholic ex-social worker well versed in life’s darker side. Behind his rough exterior and sharp verbal sallies, both typical genre markers, hides a warm-hearted and sensitive person with a strongly developed social conscience and an unflagging solidarity with the common people. The Varg Veums series counts 15 novels and 2 collections of short stories and has been published in hardcover, paperbacks and book club editions and sold in more than 1 million copies on the Norwegian market. The author has won numerous awards, including the Norwegian Golden Pistol (=Riverton prisen) twice, in 1975 and 2002.

The Consorts of Death, by Gunnar Staalesen (2006)

“I got a telephone call from the past.” Thus begins the thirteenth novel in the series about Bergen detective, Varg Veum. It is September 1995, and Veum is in his office when a telephone conversation takes him back twenty-five years, to a case he was involved in while working as a child protection officer, during the summer of 1970. A small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. But that had not been the end of it. In 1974 the same boy had surfaced in connection with a sudden death in his new home. And then again ten years later, in connection with yet another case: a dramatic double-murder in Sunnfjord. The small boy is now an adult, and on the run in Oslo, determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life, among them the former child protection officer, now detective Veum.

Rights sold to: Norway, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, UK.

Tomas Espedal´s work stands out in contemporary Norwegian fiction as uniquely bound up with the author´s personal experiences.

Tomas Espedal (born 1961) made his debut in 1988. A graduate of the University of Bergen, he has published both novels and short prose collections. In 1991 he won an award from the joint Radio P2/Book Club Novelists´ competition for She and I. Founder of the Bergen International Poetry Festival, Espedal’s later works explore the relationship between the novel and other genres such as essays, letters, diaries, autobiographies and travelogue. Espedal’s Tramp (Or the art of living a wild and poetic life) (2006) and Against Art (2009) have been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. The author was awarded the Literary Critics’ Prize in 2009.

“A lyrical style that captures both fleeting and enduring moments of happiness, but dwells to an even greater extent on the loss and grief that will and must follow. Espedal’s writing sparkles, some of his lines shine out, rich in association.”  – Aftenpost.

Against Art, by Tomas Espedal (2009)

Against Art is a novel that focuses on the author; on how a boy approaches art and eventually becomes a writer. At the same time it is also a story of the actual act of writing; the routines, responsibilities, and obstacles of professional writers. Against Art is also about being a member of a family, in his case a father, a son, and a grandson; how do preceding generations mark their successors? While Against Art attacks literature, it is a very literary book itself, loved by critics and readers alike.

• One of the most beautiful, most important books I’ve read for years.—Klassekampen
• Espedal has written an amazingly rich novel, which will assuredly stand out as one of the year’s best and will also further fortify the quality of Norwegian literature abroad.— Adresseavisen
• Against Art attacks literature while at the same time being intensely literary. Our greatest sorrows and torments, the individual experiences often so anemic in art, find a voice of their own.—Morgenblade

Rights sold to: Germany, Russia, Spain, Norway, Italy, UK, US, Czech Republic, Denmark.

 

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg is a very well established author. Her books have been sold in more than 300 000 copies in Sweden. They have been translated and sold to several countries. 1999 she was awarded with the Widding prize for her historical novels.

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg started her career as a diving archaeologist and spent fifteen years of her life investigating our history on the bottom of oceans all over the world. She took part in expeditions exploring everything from Viking ships to East Indian ships. Her books have found an audience among men and women of all ages.

Viking Silver, by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg (1997)

This is the first volume of a historical Viking trilogy. Events take place in Sweden, in a Viking town of Birka, before it was torn between pagan and Christian beliefs, women were free and men were Vikings.

Birka is a Viking town in full bloom. Businessmen from all over the world buy and sell goods there. Silver, plaids and slaves change owners at the market. Spices and shimmering glass from Miklagård are sold at high prices in the sheds in the harbor. At the same time, the threat of an attack looms from the ocean.

The long business journeys of the men leave the women with freedom and responsibility. It is the wife who is in charge the keys and makes sure the farm is taken care of. But Birka is entering a new age. Suddenly the sacrifice to the Aesir Gods is no longer something taken for granted, the independence of women is questioned and Bishop Gautbert preaches about God’s punishment and hell.

Viking Silver (Vikinga silver) portrays two dramatic life destinies in Birka. The novel describes how strong and independent the position of female Vikings had been, about the men’s adventures as Vikings and about the major events during one of our history’s most fascinating periods of time.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Romania, Russia.

Liberated, by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg (2009)

The year is 1395. Anne Persdotter has settled in Stockholm together with her two children. Despite the hard times she runs a successful trading house. But faith forces her to leave the city – and the children.

She travels to Konstantinopel. In the Baltic Sea the brutal Vitalie Brothers under the leadership of Klaus Störtebecker rule. Anne and her new companion, the Italian trader Leonardo, risk their lives and leave Konstantinopel to buy valuable copper from Bergslagen in Sweden.

The months on the seas become quite eventful. Anne needs to use tricks and all her will to survive. She is driven by the longing for her children, hopes about her future and the promise about love, which slowly grows stronger and stronger.

Remarkable adventures, passionate love and touch politics between powerful nations. In Liberated Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg adds colour and life to a so far unknown history.

Rights sold to: Denmark, Germany, Sweden.

 

Risto Isomäki is a well-known author, science editor and environmental activist. He has worked on several international projects in Africa and India. In addition to fiction titles, which have been sold to 10 countries, he has published numerous non-fiction books on environmental affairs, development cooperation and the third world. Despite the scientific approach, Isomäki is a master of expressing his message in a way that is accessible to the reader, always designed to reach a wider audience.

Isomäki’s fiction titles can be described as science fiction or ecological thrillers. They combine solid scientific expertise and research-based facts with fantastical future visions, typical of science fiction. Isomäki awakens his readers to the effects of activities that change and destroy man’s environment. We see this in his acclaimed books of which The Sands of Sarasvati was nominated for the Finlandia prize in 2005. This book also received the Thank you for the book medal in 2006, awarded annually by libraries and book shops.

The Sands of Sarasvati, by Risto Isomäki (2005)

The Sands of Sarasvati is an eco-thriller about a man-made environmental catastrophe. This visionary work of literature reflects on the significance of giant tsunamis in the history of mankind. The novel had already been sent to the publisher before the tsunami hit the coastal regions of Asia in 2004.

The events take place in the near future. They encompass Finland, the continental ice sheet of Greenland, and the Indian Ocean. The Russian researcher Sergey tries to investigate the mystery of a sunken city (Atlantis?) in the Gulf of Cambay. He works together with his colleague Amrita, and with an Indian research body. At the same time, Finnish researcher Kari Ahola tries to solve the problem of melting ice sheets. He cooperates with a research unit in Greenland, run by the Filipino recluse Susan Chang, which also studies the ice sheets. These two lines of research line up surprisingly well, resulting in the discovery that the ice sheets are in imminent danger of melting. This would result in a catastrophic tsunami and flood. The researchers also begin to find answers to questions posed thousands of years ago. In the book’s climax, although scientists have been able to predict the birth of the tsunami, there is no time to prevent it.

The selling point of this novel is not the plot, but rather, the expertise of the author at making complex science accessible. Isomäki creates suspense through the research paths of the novel’s heroes. The reader is given an extensive view of world history, its natural phenomenon, the birth and development of civilisations, the structure of space, and the mystery of Atlantis. Isomäki is at his most impressive when describing the polar ice sheets: the unpredictability of snow, ice, air and water; their movement and shapes. He captivates the reader with his unique insight into the complexities of water.

The Sands of Sarasvati is a frightening thriller because its set-up is so very real. This book must be commended for the way that it handles a difficult subject, and explains the complex causative chain to the reader. At long last, we get to read a literary work that has a lot to say. The Sands of Sarasvati is a significant contribution to the ongoing dialogue about climate change. – Parnasso

Rights sold to: Finland, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Hungary.

 

Emma Hamberg, b.1971, renowned illustrator, columnist and reporter, made her literary debut in 2003 with “Lina’s Eveningbook”, a novel for young adults, which won great critical acclaim and was made into a successful feature film. Two years later, 2005, Hamberg debuted with her first novel for adults, “Mossviken Wifes – The Great Chance” – an arousing story of a beautician and a shop-assistant on the run from their unfaithful husbands, which was an immediate success and the starting point for writing women’s fiction. In 2007, this was followed up with the hilarious novel, “In Heat”.

Emma Hamberg is married, a mother of three girls and lives with her family on the outskirts of Stockholm. She grew up in a small town in south-west Sweden, which is reflected in her novels mainly set in the countryside. Her style of writing is swift, skilled, humoristic and has a warm tone of voice. She is today one of Sweden’s best-selling authors of women’s fiction.

The Ace, by Emma Hamberg (2010)

“The Ace” is a captivating story about life and love, about daring to be yourself and doing the things you want to, and also about how hard it can to escape loneliness. Emma Hamberg skilfully portrays a magical, fairytale summertime in Sweden where anything can happen. The warmth and wit of her writing is impossible to resist, and the accurate dialogue grabs you emotionally. In a romantic summer castle on their own island, Hjortholmen, in the middle of Lake Vänern, live an artist couple, Pelle and Maja Hannix. They live a life that most people can only dream of. Among antiquated furniture, ornate rooms and pink marble columns, Pelle and Maja each have their own studio. Even if the garden has been neglected, the apple groves, orangery and lily pond still show its original charm: a secret paradise where fallow deer graze freely and the quiet bubble of the water laps against the shore. Despite this, Maja is yearning for something else. Pelle’s wishes and career have overshadowed hers for several years now, and she has finally lost herself. Their relationship has also changed, and the lack of intimacy has left her feeling increasingly lonely and isolated. Maja longs to be able to support herself and rediscover happiness and creativity. After reading an article on swimming courses for adults, she decides to set up the large mosaic pool behind the castle and teach swimming on the island. Besides the swimming, she imagines days filled with inspiring conversation and exciting encounters with other people, which is just what she needs. However, things don’t turn out as she anticipates.

Rights sold to: Sweden (Pirat), Germany (Piper), Denmark (Aronsen).

Johanna Sinisalo é, sem nenhuma dúvida, uma das autoras finlandesas de maior sucesso internacional. Seu primeiro romance, Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (Não antes do entardecer, Tammi, 2000), ganhou o Prêmio Finlandia de literatura e o Prêmio James Tiptree Jr. em 2004. Seus direitos foram vendidos para 14 países até a presente data.

O romance de Sinsalo Laisisilmä (O olho de vidro, Teos, 2006) foi publicado na Alemanha pela Tropen. Seu último romance, Linnunaivot (Cérebro de pássaro, Teos, 2008), foi um grande sucesso. Linnunaivot foi publicado em francês pela Actes Sud e em inglês pela Peter Owen Publishers recebendo críticas fantásticas. O jornal The Guardian e a Publisher’s Weekly colocaram-no em suas listas de recomendações. Em 2005, Sinisalo editou uma antologia, The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, para a editora inglesa Dedalus. Dentre vários outros prêmios, seu conto “Baby Doll” foi um dos finalistas do prestigioso Prêmio Nebula em 2009.

“A rainha está morta. As abelhas foram-se. Assim, o mundo está para acabar.Mas se você seguir as abelhas, há portas dentro do ar. E um homem desesperado está pronto para atravessar por uma delas.”
– Trecho retirado do novo romance de J. Sinisalo, Of Blood Angels, a ser lançado no outono de 2011.

Os direitos autorais para as obras de Sinisalo foram vendidos para os seguintes idiomas: inglês, francês, espanhol, alemão, sueco, japonês, russo, letão, lituano, esloveno, albanês, checo, polonês e búlgaro.

The Blood of Angels, by Johanna Sinisalo (2011)

An electrifying study of a future that could be reality tomorrow, and a chilling commentary on the great ethical question of our day: How should we treat nature and animals?

Albert Einstein is claimed to have said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left to live. When mass bee-vanishings of unprecedented scope and devastation hit the United States, Orvo, a beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And one day, when Orvo goes to check on his hives, he is forced to witness something he wishes he had never lived to see. The queen is dead. The epidemic has spread to Europe. The world is coming to an end.

The light of Orvo’s life is his son, Eero, whose secret animal activist existence Orvo discovers far too late. Eero’s activities as a defender of animal rights and an ardent opponent of Orvo’s inherited way of life propel the family into irreversible, gutwrenching conflict. Orvo takes a desperate step onto a path where only he and the bees know the way… This novel is a magical plunge into the myth of death and immortality, a tale of human blindness in the face of overwhelming choices and inevitabilities.

The queen is dead. The bees are gone. Thus, the world is about to end. But if you follow the bees, there are doors in the air. And a desperate man is ready to go through one. – from Johanna Sinisalo’s The Blood of Angels.

First published in September 2011.

Não antes do entardecer, de Johanna Sinisalo

Título original: Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi | Ano de Publicação: 2000 | Editora: Tammi

Gênero: Ficção | Dimensões: 110 x 178 mm | Número de Páginas: 268 | Encadernação: Capa dura | Amostras de tradução: Inglês

Direitos vendidos para: Inglês (RU), Inglês (EUA), Francês, Espanhol, Alemão, Sueco, Japonês, Letão, Lituano, Esloveno, Albanês, Checho, Polonês, Russo e Búlgaro

Finlandia prêmio 2000 (Finlândia)
James Tiptree Jr. prêmio 2004 (EUA)

Publicado nos Estados Unidos como Troll, Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi é um best-seller internacional da literatura fantástica, e vencedor do Prêmio Finlândia. Mikael, um jovem fotógrafo gay, encontra no pátio de seu prédio de apartamentos uma criatura pequena, semelhante a um homem. Trata-se de um jovem Troll, conhecido pela mitologia escandinava como uma besta selvagem demoníaca, um híbrido como o lobisomem. Aparentemente extinto, nos dias de hoje ele é visto como um brinquedo de pelúcia peludo pelas crianças nórdicas. Mikael dá o nome de Pessi ao troll e leva-o para casa onde o esconde. A primeira coisa que Mikael faz é pesquisar tudo o que pode sobre trolls na internet, em fontes sobre folclore, periódicos sobre natureza e recortes de jornal. Mikael, porém, não descobre que trolls exalam feromônios que têm o mesmo cheiro de uma loção pós-barba Calvin Klein e que isto tem um efeito profundamente afrodisíaco naqueles a sua volta. Enquanto fotografava para uma marca de jeans super hip, Mikael rapidamente se vê em uma ligação perigosa com Martes, o diretor de arte sexualmente ambivalente da agência de propaganda em questão, enquanto, dois de seus amigos, por sua vez, apaixonam-se por ele por carregar o perfume do troll. O que Mikael deixa de aprender, com consequências trágicas, é que Pessi, o troll, é o intérprete dos impulsos mais obscuros e proibidos do homem.

Cérebro de pássaro, por Johanna Sinisalo

Título original: Linnunaivot | Ano de Publicação: 2008 | Editora: Teos
Gênero: Ficção | Número de Páginas: 332 | Encadernação: Capa dura | Publicado em Inglês e Francês | Amostras de tradução: Inglês

Direitos vendidos para: Inglês (RU), Francês

O mais recente romance de Sinisalo, Birdbrain, é um cuidadoso retrato do desejo insaciável dos ocidentais pelo intocado e pelo primitivo. Um jovem casal finlandês, Jyrki e Heidi, sai para a viagem de aventuras de seus sonhos na Australásia levando Heart of Darkness, de Joseph Conrad, como material de leitura. Para a surpresa de Jyrki, sua namorada, Heidi, exige ir com ele, temendo a ideia de vários meses de solidão. A viagem gradualmente se transforma em um suspense tortuoso no qual pertences desaparecem e, ainda mais misteriosamente, reaparecem. Os viajantes ficam nas mãos da natureza selvagem. Birdbrain descreve a ânsia desesperada dos ocidentais por algo intocado e primitivo com uma ironia sagaz. Ao mesmo tempo, o livro revela o lado negro deste desejo de explorador: a necessidade insaciável de controlar, de invadir e de deixar sua marca na paisagem. Mas o que acontece quando a natureza reage?

Uma sensação de horror a sua espreita que lhe deixará atordoado por semanas

– Sam Jordison, A Guardian Book of the Year, 2010

 

Marko Hautala

Marko Hautala (n. 1973) é escritor e professor e anteriormente trabalhou em um hospital psiquiátrico. Seu primeiro romance Itsevalaisevat, 2008 (Os auto-iluminados) recebeu o Prêmio Tiiliskivi. Em 2010 Hautala recebeu o Prêmio Kalevi Jäntti para jovens autores pelo romance Shrouds.

 

 

 

 

Vermes, por Marko Hautala

Título original: Torajyvät | Ano de Publicação: 2011 | Editora: Tammi
Gênero: Ficção | Número de Páginas: 260 | Dimensões: 134 x 213 mm | Encadernação: Capa dura | Amostras de tradução: Inglês

Direitos vendidos para: Alemão

Torajyvät é uma história intensamente emocional sobre as longas sombras deixadas pelo passado e pela expiação de atos irreversíveis. O casamento de Aaron e Jenny parece estar em boa forma à superfície quando eles são convidados para as ilhas no Golfo da Botnia. O filho adulto de Aaron, Alexi, mora lá em isolamento devido a um dano cerebral ocorrido em um grave acidente de carro. O convite não pode ser recusado, uma vez que pode ser a última chance de reconciliação e perdão. Jenny é uma antiga namorada de Alexi, e o relacionamento secreto escandaloso de seu pai com sua namorada causou um grande distanciamento entre eles na época. Entretanto, na ilha pedregosa e árida, há o misterioso legado de um naufrágio, marcado por nove sepulturas de pedra e uma pequena capela em ruínas. Estes memoriais fantasmagóricos guardam uma tragédia antiga e uma ideologia segundo a qual um pecador não vale mais do que um verme arrastando-se na sujeira. E na ilha, este legado parece continuar a viver.

Mortalhas, por Marko Hautala

Título original: Käärinliinat | Ano de Publicação: 2009 | Editora: Tammi
Gênero: Ficção | Número de Páginas: 279 | Dimensões: 134 x 213 mm | Encadernação: Capa dura | Amostras de tradução: Inglês

 

Direitos vendidos para: Italiano, Alemão

Torajyvät é um romance instigante sobre o poder da mente humana assim como uma representação impiedosa das dificuldades da vida em uma instituição psiquiátrica. Mikael, de trinta anos, é designado como enfermeiro de um paciente idoso na enfermaria de isolamento do hospital psiquiátrico. O paciente cometeu um assassinato inexplicável e desde então isolou-se em um estranho mundo paralelo egípcio, propagando com orgulho seu culto da morte por meio de sermões hipnóticos arrepiantes. Mikael luta para entender seu paciente, mas devido à situação de sua vida pessoal, não consegue manter o distanciamento profissional. Seus colegas não oferecem qualquer ajuda: um cinismo negro domina o dia a dia do hospital. O leitor aos poucos descobre mais sobre o paciente, quando suas experiências de guerra são reveladas através de uma série de flashbacks dramáticos, apresentando uma explicação possível para o início da doença. Entretanto, Hautala é sutil e maduro demais para oferecer uma solução única e simples.

“O final oferece uma surpresa que eleva uma boa história a uma excelente história.” – Metro

“Uma história multidimensional excitante sobre perda e insanidade – Hautala é um escritor tão habilidoso que a narrativa não se perde em horror superficial.”

– Ilona

 

Maria Turtschaninoff

Maria Turtschaninoff (n. 1977) escreve contos de fada desde os cinco anos. Seus escritores favoritos são Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, Philip Pullman, Michael Ende, JRR Tolkien, Ursula K Le Guin, CS Lewis, Irmelin Sandman Lilius, John Irving. E muitos outros! Maria tem um mestrado em ecologia humana, mas trabalha como jornalista freelance e vive em Karjaa com seu marido, um pequeno terrier e duas macieiras.

 

 

 

 

Cidade de Underfors, por Maria Turtschaninoff

Título original: Underfors | Ano de Publicação: 2010 | Editora: Söderströms
Gênero: Ficção | Número de Páginas: 341 | Dimensões: 134 x 213 mm | Encadernação: Capa dura

Tudo parece normal na cidade de Helsínque. alva e Joel estão na mesma classe no ensino médio. alva é uma daquelas adolescentes fortes, espertas que se recusam a se adequar. Joel passa seu tempo fazendo parkour e sonhando com alva. Mas quando alva encontra nide, um bad boy vestido de couro por quem ela se sente irresistivelmente atraída, um novo mundo revela-se sob a cidade que ela conhece tão bem: Underfors. O romance de Maria Turtschaninoff para jovens adultos tem tudo – suspense, sexo, decepção, tristeza e ansiedade adolescente. Quem sou eu e de onde eu venho? A que lugar eu pertenço? e por que estou tão loucamente atraída por tal pessoa? em Underfors, retratos realistas de adolescentes encontram-se cara a cara com o sobrenatural.

O resultado é uma fantasia brilhante de dimensões e variedade épicas, uma história repleta de perigos, coragem, amor, um desejo por vingança e antigas criaturas de contos de fada.

–Erika Rönngård, Vasabladet

 

Arra, por Maria Turtschaninoff

Título original: Arra | Ano de Publicação: 2010 | Editora: Tammi
Gênero: Romance juvenil | Número de Páginas: 256 | Dimensões: 134 x 213 mm | Encadernação: Capa dura | Amostras de tradução: Inglês

Direitos vendidos para: Dinamarquês

O mundo de faz de contas deste corajoso romance de fantasia irá encantar tanto amantes de aventura quanto de romance.

O romance de Maria Turtschaninoff  conta a história de uma garota chamada Arra, que é desprezada e rejeitada por sua família desde o nascimento. Ao contrário de outras crianças, Arra não aprende a falar porque ninguém dá atenção ou fala com ela. A fala não significa nada para ela. Arra cresce no mundo natural, tornando-se parte dele. Ela ouve, e aprende a canção do riacho, a canção do fogo, a canção da terra, a canção do vento, a canção que preenche o mundo. Com a ajuda de seu canto, Arra aprende a controlar as forças da natureza e começa a tecê-las em um todo feito de sua identidade e de seus próprios poderes, da mesma forma que ela tece tapetes.

Após sua casa ser destruída em um incêndio, a garota vai para a Cidade de Lagora onde ela começa a tecer seus tapetes especiais. Lá, ela encontra por acaso Surando, o Príncipe do país. Mas o príncipe vai à guerra e é aprisionado. Somente a frágil Arra é brava o bastante para se aventurar em uma missão de busca.

Arra é uma excitante aventura fantástica com elementos fortes de contos de fada. O mundo do romance remete à sociedade medieval mas oferece um fundo totalmente original para uma história que encanta o leitor.

Um trecho do relatório do júri do Prêmio Finlandia Júnior:

Arra é uma fantástica obra de arte com integridade e beleza lírica. Ela leva o leitor para um mundo mágico. A história é instigante e mostra que a tradição de contar histórias está muito viva.

 

Annika Luther

Annika Luther (n. 1958) começou a escrever nos anos noventa e continuou por causa doo prazer inesperado que lhe trouxe. Desde então, ela escreveu cinco romances juvenis e um livro de História sobre Helsínque.

A letter to the edge of the land foi um dos finalistas para o prêmio Finlandia Junior e vencedor do Prêmio Topelius em 2008.

 

A história hilária de Annika Luther é a sorte grande literária. – Savon Sanomat

 

Cidade dos desabrigados, por Annika Luther

 

Título original: De hemlösas stad | Ano de Publicação: 2011 | Editora: Söderströms
Gênero: Ficção | Número de Páginas: 200 | Amostras de tradução: Inglês

 

Uma excitante distopia, similar a Margaret Atwood para jovens.

Após a catástrofe climática no ano de 2035, grande parte da Finlândia está submersa. Helsínque foi evacuada, e os habitantes foram todos deslocados para o norte. As crianças têm lá uma vida protegida, com música kantele, esporte e supervisão por celulares, quase totalmente ignorantes sobre o mundo exterior. Mas Lilja, de quinze anos, que nasceu em Helsínque, quer saber mais sobre suas raízes. Ela foge e vai para Helsínque, onde pessoas de todo o mundo se instalaram após suas casas terem sido inundadas. Lá ela consegue viver com uma família indiana – e tentar sobreviver em uma Helsínque totalmente diferente daquela que ela – e nós – está familiarizada.

Na distopia de Luther há também humor, e identidade com a jovem protagonista e seu temperamento adolescente. E uma descoberta que a vida continua, de uma forma ou de outra, apesar de tudo.

 

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