Layering a summer in Kosovo with later confrontations with the wounds of war, the novel explores the difficulty of return and forgiveness. It is a painful book in which memory and imagination keep shifting against each other.

Going home also means touching the past again.

Set at a forest camp, the novel becomes a survival story where friendship and unease collide. It carries a horror mood while also showing the pain of growing up and the difficulty of building trust.

In the forest, the unseen is the most frightening thing.

The book reexamines assumptions about disability through both lived experience and the language society uses around it. Using familiar examples, it unpacks hidden premises in an accessible nonfiction style.

The assumptions that look most ordinary are often the ones most worth questioning.

The book reexamines assumptions about disability through both lived experience and the language society uses around it. Using familiar examples, it unpacks hidden premises in an accessible nonfiction style.

The assumptions that look most ordinary are often the ones most worth questioning.

Centered on the relationship between mother and daughter, the novel explores family history and loss stretching back through the postwar period. By moving repeatedly through layers of memory, it connects private pain to the weight of history.

Memory becomes a way to call the lost back again.

Tracing violence at a suburban school and wounds buried in family memory, the novel searches for language inside a damaged world. It is an urgent book in which anger and mourning keep colliding.

Can language still reach anyone in a broken world?

宗教や祝祭、儀礼を題材に人々の日常と非日常が交錯する群像を描く作品。ユーモアと皮肉を交えつつ、信仰や慣習が個人生活に及ぼす影響を洞察的に掘り下げる。

宗教や祝祭、儀礼を題材に人々の日常と非日常が交錯する群像を描く作品。

個人の欲望や喪失、日常の細部を掬い取る叙述で成る長篇。登場人物の内面と過去の傷が徐々に露わになり、再生や赦しの可能性を静かに模索する。女性の視点から人間関係の複雑さを描く。

個人の欲望や喪失、日常の細部を掬い取る叙述で成る長篇。

A novel that layers migration, sexual identity, family violence, and love. It vividly traces loneliness away from home, relationships with others, and conflicts over body and desire, asking what belonging and self-definition mean today.

Taivaanpallo is a historical novel set on Saint Helena and in London in the sixteen-eighties, following the boy Angus as his encounter with Edmond Halley draws him toward the world of astronomy. Science and faith, colonial unease, and violence against his family converge, making observation and survival part of the same journey.

Through the eyes of a boy learning to chart the stars, the dawn of Enlightenment meets the unrest of an island world.

架空の地域『Niemi』を舞台に土地の歴史や住民の営みを語る大作。民話的伝承と近代史的事象を行き来しながら、共同体の記憶や言語、アイデンティティの形成を多声的に描き出す。

架空の地域『Niemi』を舞台に土地の歴史や住民の営みを語る大作。

A historical novel structured as the fictional diary of the architect Engel. It depicts the making of Helsinki through layers of observation and reflection.

The birth of a city seen through the eyes of one architect.

A novel centered on seven women gathered in the interval after death, tracing memory, identity, and loss. Essay, poetry, and narrative blend into one another.

In the blank space after death, they try to remember who they were.

Centered on the lives of Marina Tsvetaeva and her daughter Ariadna Efron, the novel follows exile, war, and the age of Stalinist terror. Under historical pressure, writing and survival emerge as inseparable.

The voices of mother and daughter survive the pressure of an age of violence.

Set in the Finnish archipelago after the Second World War, the novel follows a newly appointed priest and his family as they settle into island life. The hard landscape and the details of daily work accumulate into a quiet intimacy that gives the story its weight.

Family and community slowly take shape in a life defined by sea and ice.

Set in a train compartment, this journey novel explores encounters, loneliness, and cultural friction across the borderlands of northern Europe and Russia.

A train-bound story of solitude and cultural friction.

A Finnish novel in which a lonely woman goes door to door and unexpectedly begins to grow human connections.

A hesitant conversation slowly gives way to a fragile intimacy.

日常の営みと仕事の細部に目を向け、窯（オーブン）づくりの過程を通じて時間や労働、人的関係を静謐に描いた作品。平穏の中にある深い意味を照射する。

日常の営みと仕事の細部に目を向け、窯（オーブン）づくりの過程を通じて時間や労働、人的関係を静謐に描いた作品。

Set in Estonia across the Soviet occupation and its aftermath, the novel follows how violence and humiliation linger across generations. It is a sharp study of trauma, memory, and moral reckoning.

Set in Estonia across the Soviet occupation and its aftermath, the novel follows how violence and humiliation linger across generations.

A novel of self-discovery that follows an artist figure through family ties, desire, and memory. Its quiet movement between inner life and visual imagination gives the book its shape.

A novel of self-discovery that follows an artist figure through family ties, desire, and memory.

A historical novel about Helsinki in the first half of the twentieth century, following several lives as the city transforms around them. It links class, politics, memory, and urban change in a broad social panorama.

A historical novel about Helsinki in the first half of the twentieth century, following several lives as the city transforms around them.

A layered family novel moving between the war summer of 1944 and the summer of 1999. Through a Finnish family estate, it connects memory, time, and the persistence of the past.

A layered family novel moving between the war summer of 1944 and the summer of 1999.

A biographical novel about poet Eeva-Liisa Manner, who confronts the ruins of her Spanish house and is drawn back into letters, photographs, friendships, love, and the making of a writer. It blends literary biography with intimate psychological portraiture.

A biographical novel about poet Eeva-Liisa Manner, who confronts the ruins of her Spanish house and is drawn back into letters, photographs, friendships, love, and the making of a writer.

One of Kari Hotakainen’s signature works. Pursuing the Finnish dream of owning a house, it unsettles family life, obsession, masculinity, and social respectability.

The dream of buying a house unsettles family and obsession.

Hannu Raittila’s novel. Through a Finnish work crew arriving in Venice, it brings together cultural mismatch, urban crisis, and deadpan humor.

A Venice-set novel where cultural mismatch and humor collide.

Johanna Sinisalo’s fantasy novel. When a young photographer takes in an injured troll, desire, otherness, violence, and the gaze toward nature begin to intertwine.

An encounter with a troll unsettles desire and otherness.

A historical novel set in the Russian Far East of the 19th century, where a young man searches for his fate in a distant land. Geographic remoteness and inner isolation move in parallel.

The story of a young man searching for his fate in remote Siberia.

A novel about a long, passionate friendship between two men in the years after the war.

A novel about a long, passionate friendship between two men in the years after the war.

The final novel in Antti Tuuri’s Pohjanmaa series. Through a man returning from Florida, it vividly traces home, family, regional values, and a changing era.

A novel about home and change seen through a man who returns from Florida.

A biographical novel that reimagines the final days of the poet Eino Leino through his own voice.

Eino Leino's final days rise slowly and vividly through his own imagined voice.

Eeva Joenpelto’s major novel. Through power struggles in a small Finnish town, revenge, and family tension, it shows how social forces press upon individual choices.

A major novel about power, revenge, and the pressure placed on family life in a Finnish town.

Bo Carpelan’s novel. Centered on the inner life of the antiquarian bookseller Daniel Urwind, it layers his wife’s absence, memory, reading, and the atmosphere of the city.

A novel in which absence and memory overlap through the inner life of an antiquarian bookseller.

Leena Krohn’s essay-like collection of short prose. Observation and philosophical thought move back and forth across consciousness, reality, dreams, and the boundary between the artificial and the natural.

A speculative collection tracing the border between consciousness and reality.

Arto Melleri’s poetry collection. While still rich in metaphor, it leans toward a stripped-down sense of reality, tracing life, death, urban atmosphere, and the grit of memory.

A poetry collection that keeps its metaphoric richness while moving toward raw reality.

Jouko-Johan, a divorced father of a 12-year-old girl and a seasoned traveler, returns to Finland after researching minority peoples on the Iraq-Iran border. Haunted by concern for his daughter being raised by her mother and stepfather, he abducts her and the two begin a long odyssey across Europe under false names and forged passports. A multi-layered novel about human responsibility, the struggle to fulfill dreams, loneliness, and the painful process of transformation.

A shattering, multi-layered novel about the bond between father and daughter across a violent world.

Markku Envall’s aphorism collection. Short fragments probe religion, freedom, the workings of thought, and everyday conduct, shifting meaning through calm observation and irony.

Short fragments that shift the outlines of freedom, belief, and daily life.

Gösta Ågren’s Swedish-language poetry collection. Memory of Ostrobothnia, questions of existence, and dense language converge here, making it a crucial opening to the trilogy.

The opening point of a trilogy that condenses home, memory, and existential inquiry.

Helvi Hämäläinen’s poetry collection after a long silence. Vivid imagery and painful memory come to the fore, blending private confession with a wider view of the times.

A forceful, painful poetry collection that returned Hämäläinen to the spotlight.

A poetry collection by Sirkka Turkka. Natural and animal imagery, grief, and bodily sensation intertwine densely to capture the loneliness and tenderness embedded in everyday life.

A poetry collection that renders grief and attachment through natural and animal imagery.

Through essays on literature, the book considers solitude, resistance, and critical spirit. Erno Paasilinna’s sharp voice moves briskly through questions of Finnish literature and intellectual independence.

Solitude and defiance become the driving force of the criticism itself.