Йоханна Синисало — новинки

The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their "defective" line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to help her doll-like sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinations. Does this chili have effects that justify its prohibition? How did Finland turn into the North Korea of Europe? And will Vanna succeed in her quest to find her sister, or will her growing need to satisfy her chili addiction destroy her?

It is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And when he sees the queen dead in his hives one day, it's clear the epidemic has spread to Europe, and the world is coming to an end. Orvo's special knowledge of bees just may enable him to glimpse a solution to catastrophe: he takes a desperate step onto a path where only he and the bees know the way but it propels him into conflict with his estranged, but much-loved son, a committed animal activist. A magical plunge into the myth of death and immortality, this is a tale of human blindness in the face of devastation—and the inevitable.

This anthology of Finnish fantasy edited by Desirina Boskovich features fiction from Carita Forsgren, Mari Saario, Johanna Sinisalo, Hannu Rajaniemi, Anne Leinonen, Marko Hautala, Maarit Verronen, Olli Jalonen, Leena Likitalo, Tuomas Kilpi, Tiina Raevaara, Jyrki Vainonen, Sari Peltoniemi, Leena Krohn, and Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen—author of the critically acclaimed The Rabbit Back Literature Society. What will you find within these pages? A photographer stumbles on a wounded troll, and attempts to nurse it back to health. A lonely girl discovers the flames in the family smithy are tied to an ancient portal between worlds. A modern woman…

Молодой фотограф по прозвищу Ангел нашел во дворе своего дома странное существо - тролля, к которому он постепенно проникается необъяснимой и неуправляемой любовью. Роман финской писательницы - это история любви и ненависти, история противостояния человека и природы.

Nuori valokuvaaja Mikael löytää kotitalonsa takapihalta jotakin, mitä hän ei ole eläissään nähnyt, mutta minkä hän tietää saman tien haluavansa omakseen. Hetkeäkään epäröimättä hän ottaa hoiviinsa öisen metsänpeikon, kansantaruista tutun salaperäisen olennon. Mikaelin ja peikon välille solmiutuu maagisen tiivis suhde, joka saattaa vähitellen sijoiltaan koko elämän. Jos hän olikin aluksi kuvitellut voivansa vangita palan villiä luontoa luokseen, joutuu hän pian toteamaan jääneensä itse vangiksi. Eikä hän tiedä elävänsä hetkeä, jolloin alistettu luonto on juuri iskemäisillään takaisin. Yhdistellen ikivanhaa mytologiaa ja uusinta…