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LITERARY FICTION
                                                                 4 Johanna Sinisalo: S              I

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                                                                 5 Emmi Itäranta: Moonday Letters
                                                                 6 Inka Nousiainen: The Blackbird
                                                                 7 Eeva Rohas: Rage
                                                                 8 Laura Lindstedt: My Friend Natalia
                                                                 9 Elina Hirvonen: Red Storm
                                                                 10 Laura Lindstedt: Oneiron, Scissors
                                                                     Jussi Valtonen: They Do Not Know What They Do
                                                                 11 Iida Rauma: On Sex and Mathematics
                                                                     Saara Turunen: The Bystander; Love/Monster
                                                                 12 Johanna Sinisalo: Renate’s Story; The Core of The Sun, Troll

The Story Begins                                                 13 Emmi Itäranta: The Memory of Water; The Weaver

                                                                 HUMOR
The story of the Elina Ahlback Literary Agency began in          14 Miika Nousiainen: F

                                                                                                                          acelift
Manhattan, New York, on the Brooklyn Banks, in February          15 Miika Nousiainen: Roots; Rasberry Boat Refugee
2009. While Elina’s son was skating in this skate park under     16 Minna Lindgren: Far Far Love; The Angry Widow
the Brooklyn Bridge, the courageous decision to establish        17 Minna Lindgren: The Sunset Grove Trilogy
the agency was made — with its mission to build bridges
                                                                 CRIME
between authors and publishers worldwide and with its
passion to internationalize Finnish literature.                  18 Max Seeck: T       F        R

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                                                                 19 Max Seeck: Daniel Kuisma Trilogy
                                                                 20 Leena Lehtolainen: The Oathbreaker
                                                                 21 Leena Lehtolainen: Maria Kallio Series
                                                                 22 Petri Karra: Dark Light
                                                                 23 Pauliina Susi: Siren

The Elina Ahlback                                                   Arto Halonen & Kevin Frazier: The Guardian Angel
                                                                    Karo Hämäläinen: Cruel is the Night

Literary Agency 10 years                                         NON-FICTION
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                                                                                                                      onderful
                                                                                                                                                                      ife
                                                                 25 Konsta Klemetti, Harro Grönberg: The Game Designer Confessions
Literature is a work of art. Literature is universal. Literary
                                                                 26 Katja Pantzar: Saving the World with Sisu, the Finnish Way
works take many forms: prose, narrative non-fiction,             27 Katja Pantzar: Finding Sisu
children’s stories, illustrated works.                           28 Mia Kankimäki: The Women I Think About at Night
On June 9th, 2009, I established The Elina Ahlback               29 Mia Kankimäki: Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster
Literary Agency with great passion: I had vision and a           30 Lotta Sonninen: The Little Book of Bad Moods for Mothers
dream to bring Finnish authors and their unique works            31 Lotta Sonninen: The Little Book of Bad Moods
to the US and around the globe: to multiply, to tenfold          32 Raisa Cacciatore & Erja Korteniemi-Poikela:
the export of Finnish literature. To build bridges between          Will-Power, Determination & Self-Esteem
                                                                    Love, Joy & Courage
Finnish authors and publishers worldwide!
                                                                 33 Carita Harju: The Soul of Sauna
I believed Finland has to offer world class literature, and      34 Timo Honkela: The Peace Machine
today I believe even more in this mission. Finnish authors       35 Finnish Literature Exchange Grants
write hidden gems, and it has been pure joy to represent
Finland’s award-winning and bestselling authors in all           YOUNG ADULT
genres, and to sell passionately literary fiction, crime,        36-37 Aino Louhi: I            G
non-fiction, children’s and young adult fiction worldwide.
                                                                                      maginary
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                                                                 38-39 Maria Turtschaninoff: Red Abbey Chronicles
I am truly grateful to all our wonderful publishers around       40-41 Salla Simukka: Snow White Trilogy
the world who have believed in Finnish authors and have
widely published literary works from Finland!                    CHILDREN’S
The coming 100 years will show that many of our                  42 Tuutikki Tolonen: A                   G          D
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Agency’s Finnish authors and their works will be part of         43 Heidi Viherjuuri: Hilja Series
the world literature heritage.                                   44 Petri Tamminen: How to Greet an Alien
                                                                 45 Satu Kettunen: Alma’s Monster Party
Meet our wonderful team of agents and co-agents in the
                                                                 46-47 Tuutikki Tolonen: Monster Nanny Series
coming book fairs. Browse through our 10th anniversary           48 Laura Ertimo: Weird Weather. Why Does Climate Change?
Fall 2019 List and we welcome you to join the success            49 Laura Ertimo: The Enchanted Planet Earth
story: Finnish authors conquering the world!                     50 Laura Ertimo: What is Night, What is Water
                                                                 51 Riikka Jäntti: Little Mouse Series
Yours truly,                                                     52 Salla Simukka: Sisterland
Elina Ahlbäck, Founder & CEO                                     53 Magdaleena Hai: The Little Shop of Nightmares Series,
                                                                    The Grumblebelly Cat
                                                                 54 Mila Teräs: The Fox Who Painted the Sky
                                                                    Pasi Pitkänen: Monster Tournament
Reading materials and rights enquiries: info@ahlbackagency.com   55 Kristiina Louhi: Tomppa Series
                                                                    Elina Hirvonen: Princess Rascal Series
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Literary Fiction
                               Strangers
Literary Fiction               Inside             pg 4

                               Johanna Sinisalo

                      Facelift

                                                          Humor
Humor                                             pg 14
                      Miika Nousiainen

                          The Faithful
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                          Max Seeck

                   A Wonderful Life:
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                   Garden of Dreams
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Strangers Inside
by Johanna Sinisalo

Modern horror story by ”The Queen
of Finnish Weird”. Based on the latest
science with a sci-fi twist!
#modernhorror #scifi #science #metabolism #bodyhorror #family
#drama #bestsellingauthor

There is a slightly unconventional family, including a more than a
little unconventional daughter with some very, very unconventional
thoughts. Something uncanny creeps into their lives, as these
seemingly inexplicable injuries appear on the children. Something
dangerous and freaky seems to be at large... With the first signs of
violence, a horrible question arises: Who is trying to cruelly damage
the family? Is it an external threat – or could it be someone... or
something... from the inside?

Strangers Inside is a modern horror story, but also a stunning, gripping
and frightening description of crooked family dynamics. The story is
delivered by three different narrator voices, all of them having their
blind points of view. Is the ultimate enemy, ripping the family slowly        V
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apart, coming from the circle of people that are closest to you?              Karisto 2020, 350 pp

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     Strangers Inside is classic horror                                       Rights sold
                                                                              FINLAND: Karisto (orig.)           of a major
                                                                                                                  National
     updated! The tension grows                                               Reading materials                 Horror Novel
     beautifully and the horror seeps                                         English sample and synopsis       Competition
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     into the story nice and slow. It is a
     fresh and brilliant story that is both
     current and timeless.
    – National Horror Competition Jury

      J            S         is an internationally-acclaimed author, who categorizes her own works as ‘Finnish weird’
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      as they defy any single genre. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Finlandia Prize (2000), James
      Tiptree Jr. Award (2004), Atorox (seven times), Prometheus Award (2017), and been nominated for the Nebula
      Award (2009), and her works have been translated into over 20 languages.

      Read mo e about Johanna Sinisalo’s award-winning bibliography on page 12
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Moonday Letters
by Emmi Itäranta

Dystopian space opera meets
sci-fi thriller somewhere between
the Earth, Mars and the Moon!

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#sci-fi #future #space #moon #earth #marriage #secrets #activism

Lumi is an Earth-born healer whose Mars-born spouse Sol
disappears unexpectedly on a work trip. As Lumi begins her
quest through space to find Sol, she delves gradually deeper
into Sol’s secrets and into her own past — finding that their
fates may have been connected for much longer than she
thought.

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      – Washington Post Book World on       emory of Water                                                       The Memory
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      themes in her prose, praised for its lyricism. Her award-winning and widely translated debut Memory of Water is
      being developed into a feature film, and it has been translated into 23 languages.
      Her honours include the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize 2013, the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize 2012 and first place in the
      Teos Fantasy and Sci-Fi Literary Contest 2011. Her novel Memory of Water has also been nominated for the Philip
      K. Dick Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award recognizing the best science fiction novel published in the UK in 2014, and
      the Golden Tentacle award. In addition, Itäranta has been included on the Honor List of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
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The Blackbird
by Inka Nousiainen

A heart-gripping story of loss, letting
go, and of hope that won’t fade away —
based on a true story.
#brothersandsisters #familytragedy #loss #memories #truestory
#longing #sea #disappearance

In August 1989 a young man goes on a cruise boat with his friends,
and disappears. The only thing that returns is a yellow backpack and
endless sorrow. The tragedy changes the lives of the whole family.
Uncertainty of the brother’s fate makes his little sister ask even years
later, what happened on that night on M/S Fennia?

The sister, grown up with the trauma, returns to the memories of past
with hope to finally be able to say goodbye.

     The story flows on, and the                                                        M
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     sentences echo with sorrow,                                                        WSOY September 2019, 170 pp

     secrets and longing. Nousiainen                                                    Rights sold
     writes in such a way that you                                                      FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)

     can hear the song of a blackbird.                                                  Reading materials
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    – Parnasso Literary Magazine on Nousiainen’s novel
      Kirkkaat päivä ja ilta

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                                        fiction, children’s books and lyrics for different artists. She was only 17 years
                                        old when her first novel was published and it won the Topelius Prize in 1994.

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Rage
by Eeva Rohas

Story of divorce, alcoholism,
and attempts to recover.
Faith, hope, love… and rage!
EU Literature rize nominee!

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#marriage #divorce #alcoholism #familydrama #love #attraction
#translation #competing #recovery

Tuuli is a struggling translator and a mother of Luna, a four-
year-old girl. When Tuuli leaves her heavily drinking husband
Ilja, the lives of three people change for good.

Rage is a gripping story of divorce, alcoholism, and attempts
to recover. It’s also a novel about motherhood, commitment,

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relationships, and how people and literature are both just
as tricky to translate. Three narrators paint a picture of one
broken family, and one fragile lizard who seems to keep
everything together.
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                                                                             Otava 2018, 270 pp

     Rage’s structure is skillful!                                           Rights sold                         European

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     depths of the human mind,                                               English sample and synopsis            2019

     and then surfaces with insight.
     – Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Finland

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                                       Rohas received her doctoral degree in contemporary culture research in 2016
                                       with her study of The Sylvia Plath Forum. Raivo is her third work of fiction.
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My Friend Natalia
by Laura Lindstedt

A brave novel about a young woman’s
sexuality, the power of narration,
and identity. layful, brilliant,
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novel by a Finlandia-winner!
#literaryfiction #mystery #bestsellingauthor #therapy #irony
#philosophy #art #sexuality #nymphomaniac #feminism

Natalia starts to see a therapist to help solve the problems in her sex
life. It is clear from the beginning that she is not going to play by the
rules of the therapy. The weekly sessions combine art, philosophy,
literature, childhood memories, and erotic experiences as a method of
treatment, and slowly they make Natalia lose all her inhibitions.
She starts to enjoy the therapy – maybe too much?

The novel takes a deconstructive approach to the self-help narratives
of our time and drives the tools of autofiction into a dead end, asking
what is concealed, when everything is revealed.                                            Y     ä ä      N            Teos
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     prize winner has the reader follow                                                    BELGIUM: De Bezige Bij
                                                                                           ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat                  Laura
     a nymphomaniac through her very                                                       FRANCE: Gallimard                   Lindstedt’s
     suspicious therapy sessions. The                                                      GERMANY: dtv
                                                                                           HUNGARY: Scolar
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     plot-driven mystery has a lot to offer                                                ITALY: Elliot Edizioni
                                                                                           NETHERLANDS: De Bezige Bij
                                                                                                                              18 territories!

     for readers. Laura is a rock-star of                                                  NORWAY: Oktober
                                                                                           ROMANIA: Humanitas Fiction
     literature! – Aamulehti newspaper                                                     SWEDEN: Norstedts
                                                                                           UNITED STATES:
                                                                                           W.W. Norton/Liveright
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                                      LAURA LINDSTEDT is a Finlandia-winner and one of the most celebrated young Finnish
                                      authors of recent years: her novels verge on the postmodern and experiment with form
                                      and language in an accessible style. She is currently revising her PhD thesis on French
                                      author Nathalie Sarraute and touring the world to promote her works.

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Red Storm
by Elina Hirvonen

A heart-breaking story of an Iraqi
family’s long journey to Finland –
and of their dream of peace.

                                                                                                                        Humor
#refugee #war #peace #immigration #integration
#growingup #hope

As a small boy grows up in Iraq ruled by Saddam Hussein, fear is
always present. His father is part of an underground opposition
movement that tries to overthrow the dictator. The father ends up
spending years in prison, and the boy learns that just one wrong
word can put his life in danger.

The family escapes to melancholy Finland, a country recovering

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from financial depression. It is a safe country, but the boy grows
up with mixed feelings: can one be a good Muslim and a good
Finnish boy? When ISIS in rising in Iraq, the boy returns to his home
country as a peace negotiator, hoping to build a country where his
children can safely travel to one day.
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     “When I Remembered”, of a woman
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     her memories and share them, and
     feeling the relief of exhaling breath
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                                      ELINA HIRVONEN is the author of adults’ and children’s prose, a journalist
                                      and documentary filmmaker. She has written three highly acclaimed
                                      beautiful and tragic adults’ novels: When I Forgot, Farthest From Death and
                                      When Time Runs Out. She is also an author of two children’s books.
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     Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt                                                                             Finlandia prize                     2015

                                                                                                                              winner
     Seven women meet in a white, undefined space, moments after their deaths. Time, as we
     understand it, has ceased to exist, and all bodily sensations seem to have disappeared. In
     turn they try to remember, to piece together the fragments of their lives, their identities,
     their lost loves, and to pinpoint the moment they left their former lives behind.
     Lindstedt plays with genres from essay to poetry, transitioning from humor to rage – while
     asking the reader to contemplate the question of death’s inevitability and what follows it.
     Over 50,000 copies sold in Finland
     O          Teos 2015, 440p.

              neiron
     Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), WORLD ENGLISH: Oneworld, BULGARIA: Faber, CZECH REPUBLIC:
     Argo, DENMARK: Rosinante, FRANCE: Gallimard, HUNGARY: Scolar, ITALY: Elliot Edizioni, LITHUANIA:
     Versus Aureus, NORWAY: Forlaget Oktober, POLAND: Poznańskie, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45,
     SPAIN: Armaenia, SWEDEN: Norstedts, TURKEY: Everest Yayınları
     Reading material: English edition
     #awardwinner #literaryfiction #afterlife #death #women #feminism #identity #story
     #communicationproblems

     Scissors by Laura Lindstedt
     A gripping story of a mother’s love – or the lack of it for an adopted child.
     Maria adopts a little girl from China. Great expectations and the desire to love turn into
     inadequacies before the child’s blank stare. What happens if a child doesn’t respond at
     all? What if the mother and the child are afraid of each other?
     Lindstedt writes boldly about a woman’s life and the need to love one’s child. The novel
     discusses sensitive matters that are not often talked about: the distance between child
     and parent, the fear of failure, and finally a mother’s mental instability.
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     Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), DENMARK: Turbine
     Reading materials: Finnish and Danish editions
     #motherhood #adoption #depression #love #guilt #communicationproblems

     They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen                                                                                      Finlandia prize
                                                                                                                                                2014
                                                                                                                                       winner
     A story of family conflicts, the ethics of science, and the search for identity in a commer-
     cialized society. When professor Joe Chayefski’s neuroscience lab in Baltimore is attacked by
     animal rights activists, he doesn’t connect the dots at first. But when he receives a phone call
     from Alina, his Finnish ex-wife, he begins to realize that the threats to his career and to his
     new family may be connected to Samuel, the son he left behind in Finland two decades ago.
     Over 110,000 copies sold in Finland
     H      ä        ä     ä         ä Tammi 2014, 560 pp.
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     Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CHINA: China International Radio Press, CZECH REPUBLIC: Leda,
     FRANCE: Fayard, GERMANY: Piper Verlag, HUNGARY: Cser, LITHUANIA: Alma Littera, NETHERLANDS:
     Signatuur/A.W. Bruna, POLAND: Foksal, VIETNAM: Chibooks, WORLD ENGLISH: Oneworld
     Reading material: English edition
     Author bio: Finlandia-winning author and psychologist whose prose often muses with ethical issues and
     family relationships in style of contemporary American authors like Franzen and Egan.
     #awardwinner #thriller #father #lostson #familydrama #science #ethics

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                                                   Berlin-based Finnish mathematician, Erika leads a controlled, ordered life trying to
                                                   purge herself of superfluous emotions and needs. Yet when the worst thing imaginable
                                                   happens to her, her world comes crashing down and she escapes back to her homeland.
                                                   Meanwhile, in Helsinki, a young man named Tuovi is looking online for love in a
                                                   desperate attempt to soothe his fears. These two lost souls find salvation in each other
                                                   in unexpected ways. Sex and Mathematics is a frighteningly intelligent and visceral novel
                                                   about people in crisis, environmental disasters, about a confusing and erratic life, and the
                                                   beauty and logic of mathematics, while also exploring the agonies and ecstasies of sex.

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                                                   Author bio: Iida Rauma is an author of two prize-winning novels. Her writing tackles notions of
                                                   power, sexuality, violence and the relationship between humans and nature.
                                                   #identity #intelligence #sex #mathematics #massextinction #ghosts #magic #feminism
                                                   #family #dogs #stalkers #romanticcomedies #bodies #mucus #arrythmia #transpeople
                                                   #queer #sleepparalysis #posthumanism #oil #love

                                                   The Bystander by Saara Turunen

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                                                   The Bystander is a journey of one year in the life of its writer. When the narrator’s
                                                   debut novel is published, she feels like everything has changed. Strangely enough, no
                                                   one else seems to notice this.
                                                   At the same time ironic and earnest, the novel burrows into the issues of art, identity
                                                   and social norms. The text glows in the depiction of everyday details, it shifts between
                                                   fiction and reality, mixing shame and self-contemptuous humor with sharp narration.

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                                                   Reading material: English sample
                                                   #selfportrait #literarycriticism #feminism #self-irony #shame #loneliness #lifechoises
                                                   #literaryprize #houseplants #bicycle #noodles

                                                   Love/Monster by Saara Turunen                                                                          Debut Book of the Year rize W           2015
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                                                   In Love/Monster a young woman is finding her own place in the world by constantly
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     The story of a young woman, surrounded by a world at war, who lives in the middle
     of hostile forces in Nazi fortress on the dark side of the moon.
     Renate’s Story contains pitch-black humor narrating the ways in which its main character,
     Renate Richter – raised on the National Socialist values of the 1940s – regards the cultures
     and habits of those inhabiting the distant Planet Earth.
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     #blackhumor #nazis #moon #dystopia

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     How did Finland turn into the North Korea of Europe?
     The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has prioritized social stability and national health,
     and outlawed practically everything that might give one pleasure or cause addiction. Well,
     almost everything: the distribution of sex, an essential commodity of pleasure, is made as
     efficient as possible. In order to achieve this, the state has bred a new human subspecies:
     one that is receptive, submissive, and always willing. They used to be called “women”.
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     Actes Sud, GERMANY: Klett-Cotta, HUNGARY: Metropolis Media, LATVIA: Petergailis, SPAIN: Roca,
     TURKEY: Ithaki, WORLD ENGLISH: Grove Atlantic
     Reading material: English edition

     #awardwinner #bestseller #literaryfiction #finnishweird #dystopia #socialcommentary
     #femalenarrator #sex #satire #patriarchy #genderpolitics #suspense #chillipeppers

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     Mikael, a young gay photographer, finds in the courtyard of his apartment block a small, man-
     like creature. It is a young troll, familiar from Scandinavian mythology – a demonic, wild beast –
     and it is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen. Mikael gives the troll a name, Pessi, and
     takes him home and hides him.
     What Mikael does not know is that trolls exude pheromones that have a profound aphrodisiac
     effect on all those around it. With tragic consequences, Mikael learns that the troll is the
     interpreter of man’s darkest, most forbidden impulses…
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     DENMARK: Jensen & Dalgaard, FRANCE: Actes Sud, GERMANY: Tropen (Klett-Cotta), JAPAN: Sunmark*,
     LATVIA: Atena, LITHUANIA: Vaga, POLAND: Terytoria*, RUSSIA: Amphora*, SLOVENIA: Modrijan*,
     SPAIN: Polledro*, SWEDEN: Wahlström & Widstrand, UK: Peter Owen, USA: Grove Atlantic *Rights reverted
     Reading material: English edition
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                                              The Memory of Water                                                                        N           for Arthur C. Clarke

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                                              by Emmi Itäranta

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                                              Rights sold in 23 territories and an international feature film in development!
                                              The story is set in a drought-ravaged, war-ridden future world where fresh water has
                                              become a privilege of the few, and tea masters have been the keepers of natural springs
                                              for centuries, Memory of Water tells the story of seventeen-year-old Noria, set to
                                              become the next tea master in her village. When her father dies, she finds herself alone
                                              with the dangerous responsibility of guarding a hidden spring that can save lives – or

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                                              Perseus, CHINA: Sichuan People’s Publishing House, CZECH REPUBLIC: Albatros Media/
                                              Plus, DENMARK: Turbine, ESTONIA: Koolibri, FRANCE: Place des Editeurs, GEORGIA: Palitra L
                                              Publishing, GERMANY: DTV/Reihe Hanser, HUNGARY: Metropolis Media, ITALY: Piemme, JAPAN:
                                              Nishimura Shoten, KOREA: The Book in My Life, LATVIA: Janis Roze, LITHUANIA: Nieko Rimto,
                                              NORWAY: Gresvik Forlag, RUSSIA: Text Publishers, SPAIN: Ediciones B, SWEDEN: Modernista,
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                                              The globally praised dystopian eco-novel about a drowning city with political plotting
                                              worthy of Game of Thrones.
                                              Eliana, an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and
                                              deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous island world. She is a model
                                              citizen of the island, a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs, but she also harbors a
                                              dangerous secret in the shape of a forbidden ability: she can dream.
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                                              Publishing, GERMANY: Arctis, HUNGARY: Metropolis Media, JAPAN: Nishimura Shoten,
                                              UK: HarperVoyager, US: HarperVoyager
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Facelift
by Miika Nousiainen

Tragicomic tale of life’s biggest
questions and their surprisingly
simple answers.
#humour #problems #wellbeing #socialmedia #fake #facelift

What connects a 70-year old widow, a guy from a motorbike club, a
single-father, and a personal carer? — They are all looking for an easy
solution for their problems.

In this case, the solution is Sanni, a wellbeing blogger with a perfect life.

But can every day be filled with freshly-baked spelt bread and rustic
pottery arrangements? It takes 3 seconds to get a perfect picture for
Instagram, but perhaps one should focus a little more on the rest of
the day, beyond those three seconds?

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      I can’t wait to read more and start                                       Rights sold
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      laughing and at the same time having                                      GERMANY: Kein & Aber
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      of facing existential questions.                                          English sample and synopsis

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                                                                                                journalist and writes also for television.

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   Raspberry Boat Refugee                                            Roots
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   Mikko Virtanen has a problem. He does not want to                 Nousiainen is the master of Finnish comedy. Roots is
   be a Finnish man, the grumpy epitome of anxiety and               a story of fathers, sons, road trips, and teeth.
   low self-esteem. He has decided to become Swedish
                                                                     “In life there are three big questions. Who are you?
   instead, by any means necessary.
                                                                     Where are you going? Do you want anesthesia? I can
   The road to Swedishness is a long one, and the price              only answer the third. It is always better to do anes-
   to pay is high. But what wouldn’t you do for a chance             thesia. Even for feelings.”
   to live as a member of the most democratic society of
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   the world, in the ‘folkhemmet’ of ABBA, mamma’s meat
                                                                     was just a child – and never returned. Years later,
   balls and social democracy?
                                                                     during a root canal treatment, the son finds out that
   Mikko Virtanen becomes Mikael Andersson – the                     in addition to his bad dental karma, he has a dentist
   empathic, loving and forever patient father of two from           brother, left behind as a child just like him. The broth-
   Gothenburg, but when his lifetime wish is fulfilled,              ers embark on a journey to find out the truth about
   everything goes haywire.                                          their father.

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                                                                     NETHERLANDS: Prometheus
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                                                                    A Far, Far Love                                                                          The Angry Widow
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                                                                                               For the past 12 years, 74-year-old Ulla has cared for her
     Kauko Koskinen is a man of order: receipts are organized,                                 paralyzed husband, a mean and slightly alcoholic man. At
     60 years of calendars are safely stored, and every day has                                his funeral, all she can think is: finally! She reconnects with
     certain rhythms and routines. But when he gets banned                                     old friends and starts living every day as if it were her last.
     from the dementia care home where his wife resides,                                       Her adult children try to stop her newfound debauchery in
     his life turns upside down. Memories of his youth bring a                                 many ways – but the biggest change comes along in the
     person from the past back to his mind: where is his first love                            guise of an older gentleman.
     now? Kauko starts to track down a woman he knew sixty                                     V ha e       e    , Teos 2018, 247 pp.
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     Reading material: English sample and synopsis                                             ITALY: Marsilio SLOVAKIA: XYZ
                                                                                               SPAIN: Suma/Penguin Random House
     #literaryhumor #aging #longing #love #loss #feelgood
                                                                                               Reading materials: English sample and synopsis, Spanish edition
     #cozycrime
                                                                                               #humor #aging #farce #blackhumor #widowat74
                                                                                               #liveaseachdayisthelast #yo

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                 acerbic wit, which has been met with delight in many countries.
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  old age, friendship and life in a            over by foreign construction workers       But the place no longer feels like
  relatively ordinary retirement home.         cursing fluently in Finnish. The noise     home, and has turned into a state-
  Here the only fate worse than death          is deafening, a hole appears in the        funded, technology-driven pilot
  is being drugged up and locked away          wall, things disappear and residents       project in elderly care. The conclusion
  inside the dementia ward. Even the           have to use a portable toilet.             brings together characters lost along
  sharpest senior can’t decipher all the                                                  the way, as murky details are brought
                                               Residents Siiri, Irma and Anna-Liisa,
  nuances of this place; thankfully a                                                     to light. Legal justice is also served –
                                               all older than 90, decide to move
  few young people, including members                                                     in unexpected ways.
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  #humor #bestseller #elderly                  #constructionworks #euthanasia
  #friendship #retirementhome
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  SWEDEN:Norstedts, WORLD ENGLISH: Pan Macmillan

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The Faithful Reader
by Max Seeck

A book-inspired serial killer is on the
loose. Jessica Niemi - a detective with
a mysterious past - steps up. A chase
for the faithful reader has begun!
#serialkiller #rituals #copycat #femaledetective #catandmouse #nordicnoir

Detective Jessica Niemi is called to investigate a murder case that is
unordinary. The wife of a famous writer, Roger Koponen, seems to have
been killed in a bizarre ritual. As more ritual murders occur, it becomes
obvious that Jessica is after a serial killer.

But the murders are not random – they follow a pattern taken from
Roger’s bestselling trilogy. Has a fan gone mad, or is this case more
personal? How can Jessica stop a criminal who knows every detail of the
book even better than the author?

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                                                                                                                                                     books have
     suspense which are just                                                    GERMANY: Bastei Lübbe
                                                                                ITALY: auction
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     exceptional.”                                                              NETHERLANDS: A.W. Bruna
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                                        his time to writing professionally. An avid reader of Nordic Noir for personal
                                        pleasure, he listens to film scores as he writes. His accolades include the Debut
                                        Thriller of the Year Award 2016 and Toisinkoinen Literature Prize Nominee.

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    The Daniel Kuisma Trilogy
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packed page-turner about revenge,                                            Missing-presumed-dead Finnish dip-        final installment begins with four
war, international crime – and love. For                                     lomat, Jare Westerlund has fled from      executed men found in a Zagreb
fans of Jo Nesbo and James Bond! Jare                                        Croatia on a forged passport, leaving     apartment. The place is owned by the
Westerlund, an employee of the Finnish                                       behind a decapitated body and his         U.K. government, but no one seems to

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local police have no leads, except for                                       When Interpol officer Annika Lehto        Daniel Kuisma receives an unexpected
the anonymous threats Westerlund                                             hears of his escape, she abandons         guest from Southern Europe he hears
received before his disappearance.                                           her sick leave to go off in pursuit of    something that makes him board
Daniel Kuisma from the Finnish Defence                                       Westerlund, with the aid of special       the next plane to Zagreb: the lives of
Forces is sent to investigate, along                                         forces specialist Daniel Kuisma. What     thousands of people might be at risk.
with Annika Lehto from the Ministry for                                      follows is a dramatic chain of events,    Meanwhile Annika Lehto is recovering
Foreign Affairs. The investigation gets                                      from northern Norway, to San Francisco,   from an assault, but offers him all the

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The Oathbreaker
by Leena Lehtolainen

A man is abducted at Helsinki airport
and left to die in the winter.
He survives and an international
journey for answers begins!
#crime #revenge #espace #secretsfromthepast

A new novel by Finland’s #1 female crime writer
Aino is a ranger, located at a distant corner of the Finnish
wilderness. One day she finds a man fighting for his final breath.
The man, Tomas, has been abducted at the airport, drugged,
and abandoned to die. Aino saves his life, and when Tomas
recovers, together they hope to find out what happened and why.
Tomas learns that he has gotten involved in a murderous plot by
bloodthirsty motorbike gang.

Do they stand a chance against their new enemies? Can they find
a way out of the nightmare that someone else has started? Or is it
time to break the oaths, made so long ago...                                                 VALAPATTO
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     Lehtolainen’s crime series                                                              FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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                                                                                                                        Leena Lehtolainen
                                                                                                                             has been
     has reached a cult status.                                                              LITHUANIA: tba              translated to over
                                                                                                                           29 languages
                                                                                             Reading materials             and sells tens
     – Bunte magazine, Germany
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                                          B                  female crime author who writes hard-boiled realism from a female
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                                                             perspective. A household name in Finland, her books have sold more
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                                                             than 2 million copies worldwide.

                                                             She is also passionate about figure skating!
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                                                                                                                         Literary Fiction
 Maria Kallio series
 by Leena Lehtolainen
 Over 2 million copies sold world-wide!

              International TV series
              in development based on
              MARIA KALLIO SERIES

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    tv
 Finland’s most popular crime series, the Maria Kallio            #1 MY FIRST MURDER
 mysteries, follows the career of a tough, down-to-                  Ensimmäinen murhani, Tammi 1993, 251 pp.
 earth and emotionally intelligent police officer who             #2 HER ENEMY
 works in the Helsinki violent crimes unit. Every book               Harmin paikka, Tammi 1994, 244 pp.
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 social issues, and through the series Maria’s personal

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                                                                     Kuparisydän, Tammi 1995, 248 pp.
 development is present, as we follow her struggle to
 balance police work and motherhood.                              #4 SNOW WOMAN
                                                                     Luminainen, Tammi 1996, 352 pp.

                                                                  #5 DEATH S IRAL
         Nobody tells equally                                                  P
                                                                     Kuolemanspiraali,Tammi 1997, 359 pp.

         thrilling whodunits                                      #6 FATAL HEADWIND
                                                                     Tuulen puolella,Tammi 1998, 348 pp.

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                                                                  #7 BEFORE I GO
         peculiarities.                                              Ennen lähtöä,Tammi 2000, 375 pp.

                                                                  #8 BELOW THE SURFACE
         – Stern Magazine, Germany                                   Veren vimma, Tammi, 2003, 314 pp.

                                                                  #9 THE NIGHTINGALE MURDER
  Reading materials:                                                 Rivo Satakieli, Tammi, 2005, 346 pp.
  English editions Books 1–11,
  German editions Books 1–14                                      #10 DERAILED

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  FRANCE: Gaia                                                    #12 THE IRON TRIANGLE
  GERMANY: Rowohlt
                                                                      Rautakolmio, Tammi 2013, 352 pp.
  GREECE: Livani
  ISRAEL: Penn
                                                                  #13 A STROKE OF SADNESS
  JAPAN: Tokyo Sogensha
  LATVIA: Zvaigzne
                                                                      Surunpotku, Tammi 2015, 432 pp.
  RUSSIA: Ast
                                                                  #14 THE END OF INNOCENCE
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  TAIWAN: Linking
                                                                      Viattomuuden loppu, Tammi 2017, 457 pp.
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crime
Dark Light
by Petri Karra

A literary professor covers up his son’s
crime and plunges himself and his
detective wife into mortal danger.
For the fans of Breaking Bad!
#familydrama #darkhumor #absurd #fathersandsons
#familycrimedrama #darkmarriagecounseling #darklighthealing

Henrik Valli despises his drug addict son, Niko. They’ve been an
unhappy family as long as they can remember. Henrik has done his
best to purge Niko from his life. But one night the telephone rings.
Niko has made a bigger mess of his life than Henrik ever feared.
A father’s love wins out: he has to help his son, but it requires a
crime.

Henrik’s wife, and Niko’s mother Anna, is a police detective, and
they have to hide the crime from her. But that’s easier said than
done, and soon the family enters a nightmare, in which everyone’s
notions of right and wrong must be re-evaluated. What are you
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                                                                                                                in production
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                                                                                                                international
     – Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Finland                                                                        audience!

                                       PETRI KARRA is a writer from Helsinki, who is also known as a TV and film
                                       screenwriter. His works are often focused around families, and the circle of life.
                                       His debut novel The House of Branching Love (2008) and fourth novel The
                                       Homecoming (2015) have been made into feature films. A TV series based on his
                                       novel Dark Light is currently in development.
           photo: Aki Roukala

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                                                        Siren by Pauliina Susi
                                                        Security at the port of Barcelona is already tight when Leia Laine and her sister embark
                                                        on a luxury cruise of the Mediterranean aboard the Siren a new luxury cruise ship.
                                                        Their holiday becomes increasingly overshadowed by strange coincidences and a
                                                        growing sense of unease in Leia as she begins to suspect that all is not well aboard the
                                                        luxury liner, with its thousands of passengers. Soon, the relaxing holiday onboard the
                                                        vessel turns into a living nightmare as Leia witnesses firsthand the injustices of global
                                                        inequality, a terror threat, and the face of a ghost from her past.
                                                        S                                   Tammi 2017, 520 pp.

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                                                        Reading material: English synopsis, German edition
                                                        Author bio: Author and journalist who tackles not only suspense and thriller but also clever chick-lit
                                                        in a sovereign manner.

                                                        #mystery #cruise #terrorism #inequality #humor #thriller #sistersaretheworst

                                                        The Guardian Angel by Arto Halonen and Kevin Frazier
                                                        True crime meets psychological suspense in a gripping thriller about hypnosis
                                                        murders in post-war Copenhagen.

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                                                        The Guardian Angel, based on true events, is about a bizarre double murder that shook
                                                        Copenhagen in the 1950s. Palle Hardrup, a former Nazi collaborator recently released
                                                        from prison walks into a bank, demands money, and shoots two employees point
                                                        blank. The police caught the man in no time, but according to the witnesses, he was in
                                                        a trancelike state. Inspector Anders Olsen’s suspicions are aroused: what if the man was
                                                        operating under hypnosis – and what if the real killer is still at large?
                                                        The book has been written alongside the feature film, The Murderous Trance. The film
                                                        will be released in the US nationwide theatrical distribution in the fall 2019, and it has
                                                        already been sold to 60 countries around the world. The Murderous Trance will be one

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                                feature
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       based on the book
       sold to USA and                                  S                                            WSOY 2018, 300 pp.
                                                                       uojelusenkeli
       60 other countries
                                                        Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), DENMARK: Hr. Ferdinand, ITALY: Piemme, PORTUGAL: Grupo Planeta,
                                                        SERBIA: Vulkan
                                                        Reading materials: English manuscript, English synopsis
                                                        Author bio: Arto Halonen is a film director and a screenwriter. Kevin Frazier is a novelist, non-fiction writer,
                                                        essayist and a reviewer.
                                                        #truecrime #hypnosismurders #1950s #postwardenmark #bankrobbery

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                                                        Cruel is the Night by Karo Hämäläinen

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                                                        their recipients are all dead... Mikko has arrived in London with an agenda, and he thinks he
                                                        can get away with murder, but he has no idea what’s on the menu for the night: not only
                                                        does every dinner guest have a bone to pick with another, but there’s an arsenal of deadly
                                                        weapons hiding in plain sight. And by the end of the night, there will only be one survivor…

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                                                         Reading material: English edition
       feature
                                          film
       development with a
                                                         Author bio: Karo Hämäläinen is an award-winning novelist and economics reporter.
       Hollywood production
       company
                                                        #dinner #crime #murder #closedroom #whodunnit
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A Wonderful Life:
Insights for Finding
a Meaningful Existence
by Frank Martela

What is the meaning of life? Why
doesn’t happiness work as a life goal?
Don’t worry, globetrotting researcher
Frank Martela has got you covered on
these questions.
#meaningoflife #searchforhappiness #selfhelp #meaningfullife
#itsawonderfullife

In this engagingly insightful book, Frank Martela – one of the only
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academic experts who has contributed to both the philosophical and

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and worthy living.

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The journey starts in the 19th century, where it is revealed why and              UNITED STATES (World English):
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how the Scottish author Thomas Carlyle came to be the first person in

                                                                                                                                                               territories
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history who actually used the phrase “meaning of life”. The life stories          ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat                                                               publishing
of Carlyle and Russian author Leo Tolstoy serve as representative                 KOREA: Across Publishing
                                                                                  NETHERLANDS: Ambo Anthos
examples of the transformation that this book aims to guide you,                  RUSSIA: Bombora
the reader, through. Finally, an answer is provided to the question of
meaning that is compatible with the latest scientific knowledge about             Reading material
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human nature, yet still both inspiring and actionable.

           arper esign is pleased to be publishing this very special book.
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         the right message for the right time. – Marta Schooler, Publisher, Harper Design

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         happiness, and human well-being. He has collaborated with key experts of these topics and presented his research
         in numerous academic conferences as well as invited lectures at universities on four continents, including Stanford
         University, Harvard University, and the University of Edinburgh. He is a popular lecturer and author of three well-
         received and bestselling non-fiction books. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland, he has
         been a visiting scholar at the University of Rochester, NY. and Australian Catholic University.

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                                                                                                                                                            Literary Fiction
The Game Designer
Confessions
by Konsta Klemetti, Harro Grönberg

How do leading game designers
engage players and create hit games?

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behind games such as Angry Birds,
Max ayne and Clash of Clans.
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#gamedesign #angrybirds #clashofclans #maxpayne

In 2018, gaming is a bigger industry than the music and movie
industries combined, touching billions of lives globally. As an
industry it hasn’t been around very long – the golden age of video

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games started in the ’80s. When we reached the 2000s, Finland,
a nation of five million inhabitants, became a game industry
superpower seemingly overnight.

From Nokia’s ubiquitous Snake to gangster-chasing Max Payne,
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to the social community phenomenon Habbo Hotel to Supercell’s

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wildly successful Clash of Clans and the most downloaded game            Top Game Designers, 2018, 115 pp.
of all time, Angry Birds, Finland’s game designers have enjoyed a

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as a mere fluke. What is it in the Helsinki water? Game industry         KOREA: Turning Point
insiders Konsta Klemetti and Harro Grönberg interviewed the              RUSSIA: Alpina
leading game designers to find out.
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Saving the World with
Sisu, the Finnish Way
by Katja Pantzar

Finally, a practical advice on how to
tackle climate change in our daily lives
using sisu – a unique form of Finnish
fortitude.
#sustainability #climatechange #lifestyle #sisu #thefinnishway
#communities #actions #timeisup # ordiclifestyle
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Feeling overwhelmed by the worsening state of our planet and
underwhelmed by the lack of actionable advice to stop it, journalist and
writer Katja Pantzar once again turns to Finns for advice.

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acting in the face of great challenge.

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In this wonderful book, Katja Pantzar shares practical Nordic examples
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consume, move and eat.

From a small Finnish town in northern Finland with the goal of being                                                              From the author
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the world’s first zero waste community, to the heartfelt stories from                                                                bestseller
regular people, experts and groups who are creating positive change,                                                               F        S    .

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this book will offer readers – no matter where they live – the practical
tools to make greener choices in their daily lives.

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      New Zealand, she is currently based in Helsinki, where she swims in the sea almost every day, all year round.
      Her first book about sisu and wellbeing has been sold to 22 different territories.

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                                                                                                                                                                                Literary Fiction
Finding Sisu
US title: The Finnish Way
by Katja Pantzar

Simple and sensible ways to boost
wellbeing and happiness based on

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Finnish Sisu!
#sisu # ordiclifestyle #Finland # heFinnishWay #Finding isu
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#wellbeing #mindfulness

Forget hygge–it’s time to blow out the candles and get out into
the world! Journalist Katja Pantzar did just that, taking the huge
leap to move from North America to the remote Nordic country

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of Finland. What she discovered there transformed her body,
mind and spirit. In this engaging and practical guide, she shows
readers how to embrace the “keep it simple and sensible” daily
practices with the power of sisu that makes Finns one of the
happiest populations in the world, year after year.                  Finding
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determination as a national virtue – and how anyone can dig          Rights sold
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deeper to survive and thrive through tough times.                                                      22 territories
                                                                     CHINA: Yeeyan Publishing
Find your courage. Find your grit. Find your sisu.                   CZECH REPUBLIC: Mladá Fronta
                                                                     FINLAND: Siltala
                                                                     FRANCE: Belfond
                                                                     GERMANY: Bastei Lübbe
                                                                     HUNGARY: Jaffa Kiado
                                                                     INDONESIA: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
     It was with delight that I                                      ITALY: Marsilio/Sonzogno
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                                                                     TAIWAN: My House
                                                                     THAILAND: OpenBooks
                                                                     TURKEY: Mona Kitap/Alfa
                                                                     UK: Hodder/Hachette (WE) (orig.)
                                                                     US: Tarcher Perigee/Penguin Random House
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