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RIGHTS GUIDE | FICTION | NON-FICTION 2011 Leena Lehtolainen is Finland’s bestselling LEENa LehtolaINEN LEENa LehtolaINEN female crime author with over 1,5 million Where Have All the Young Girls Gone The Bodyguard copies sold Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 342 pages | 2010 | Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 355 pages | 2009 | worldwide. Original title: Minne tytöt kadonneet Original title: Henkivartija The new installment of Leena Lehtolainen’s Recently Leena Lehtolainen started a new Maria Kallio series is a chronicle of xenophobia thrilling trilogy with another convincing female and hate. Maria Kallio is investigating the disap- lead, Hilja Ilveskero. The first novel of this trilogy, ICTION ICTION F pearance of three Muslim girls – and the killing of The Bodyguard, came out in 2009. F another. The underlying theme of the trilogy is a series of Where Have All the Young Girls Gone is an questions about identity and concealment. Who is engrossing exploration of the collision between each person really? What disguise is each person tradition and the new multicultural Europe. It is using? What does it mean to be family? What a journey into a world where daily life is defined language does each person speak and under- by ancient belief and deeply ingrained, habitual stand, and what is each person’s secret language? perception. Who is in the right when there are Finnish is a good secret language—few people 2 two truths? understand it—and Finland as a country is a safe 3 “Once again Lehtolainen manages to bring out haven for many an international criminal. Who is a serious topic in a natural context.” – Vantaan Lauri on whose side? Who can be trusted? What is each person’s price? Who is each person willing either to betray or to save? b www.leena-lehtolainen.de www.leenalehtolainen.net Leena Lehtolainen’s rights have been sold to English, German b English, 20 countries so far: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sample translations Sample translations German Sweden, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Taiwan, Norway, Germany Ukraine, Israel, Turkey, Poland, Czech Republic, Rights sold Rights sold Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Albania, China, Taiwan. Sweden, Denmark Dr. Saara Marko’s debut novel Kesävuori Itsevalaisevat (2008) has written received excellent Marko HaUTaLa reviews as well as SaaRa KESävUORI numerous youth the Tiiliskivi Prize. novels and plays. Torajyvät (Worms) She is currently is his third Worms Have Need of Me writing a novel psychological about love thriller. Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 2011 | Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 264 pages | 2010 | and crime. Original title: Torajyvät Original title: Tarvitse minua Worms is an intensely emotional tale of the long This multilayered novel is about the way human shadows cast by the past and atonement for beings discover and create meaningful lives. irreversible deeds. It is also a story about modern- It is a sensitive depiction of its characters’ fears ICTION ICTION F day people clinging to their blind faith in their and the eyes of the storm generated by a failure F own free agency as they are faced with the forgot- to communicate. at the same time, the novel ten secrets of the past. On a barren island lurks builds up a finely shaded picture of the way we the mysterious legacy of a shipwreck, marked by were in the past few decades. nine stone graves and a small, dilapidated chapel. These ghostly memorials conceal an ancient Have Need of Me is the story of a family with tragedy and an ideology in which a sinner is of no no blood ties. Tuukka, one of life’s victims and more worth than a worm crawling in the dirt. and anton’s adoptive father, has to accept a number of people into his life, including Jose, anton’s 4 on the island, that legacy appears to live on. 5 passionate friend; Jose’s mother Dora, who loves aLSO avaILabLE: gardens; and the half-Chinese Xia, anton’s sweet- Shrouds Hardcover | 279 pages | 2009 | heart. The indecisive anton constitutes the family’s Original title: Käärinliinat lynchpin. When Jose invents eye-catching titles for “The ending offers a surprise which upgrades his friend’s paintings, does he at the same time a fine story to an excellent one.” – Metro imbue the works with meanings? English “An exciting multidimensional tale of loss Sample translation and insanity. – – Hautala is such a skilled writer that the narration is not lost in shallow Italy (Shrouds) Rights sold horror.” – Ilona Riitta jalonen is an awarded author Essi’s debut novel who won the Runeberg ESSI KUMMU Riitta Jalonen Prize in 2006 for The Mania was Imaginary Man. released Her well-loved picture in 2006 to The Bear’s Death The Imaginary Man books are featured in excellent the Children’s reviews. Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 213 pages | 2010 | Hardcover | 120 x 200 mm | 159 pages | 2005 | Rights Guide. Original title: Karhun kuolema Original title: Kuvittele itsellesi mies A ballad of unrequited love Riitta Jalonen has created an unusual relation- a lyrical, down-to-earth story of family members ship triangle that concentrates on the relationship painfully searching for their place in this world. which forms between the wife and her husband’s ICTION ICTION F Only Stella, a healer shunned by her fellow villagers, lover. The stories of these two women intermingle F knows her place: she will become the bears bride. in an almost magical way when they finally meet. but only those who are bound forcefully enough to It is almost like two halves making a whole. the earth can find comfort in the arms of the bear. The collision both completes each of them while also threatens to destroy everything they have. “The bear would shamble up and she would become the bear’s and everything would be the way it was and “A beautifully cut diamond. Strong and silent. Delicate and brave.” – Aamulehti no one would be able to do anything about it.” “Much is left unsaid, even the most important things. But still but the bear never comes, and Stella stops waiting. 6 everything becomes clear.” – Me Naiset 7 Until someone starts sniffing around the house.The Bear’s Death expands on Finno-Ugric mythology. aLSO avaILabLE: “The narration in Essi Kummu’s second novel appeals to the Good Night, Irma Noora senses. The fragrance of the forest, the prickle of pine needles Hard cover | 156 pages | 2010 | and a warming smile give wings to the flow of this story so per- Original title: Hyvää yötä Irma Noora meated in death. -- Kummu writes like many other young women “Given Jalonen’s writing style, 150 pages of today: physically, sinfully and visibly breaching boundaries.” of short paragraphs is enough space for – Aamulehti several novels.” – Suomen Kuvalehti Sample translations aLSO avaILabLE: English, French, Italian, English Sample translation Mania Hard cover | 184 pages | 2006 | Original title: Mania Estonian, Czech Jyrki is an awarded author who is Markku’s Vihan renowned päivä (2006) was JyRKI vaINONEN for his Finnish MaRKKU PääSKyNEN a Finlandia Prize translations of the nominee and works by Seamus Tämän maailman The Towers Heaney, Jonathan Book of Angels tärkeimmät asiat Swift and William received the Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 239 pages | 2009 | Shakespeare. Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 192 pages | 2010 | Savonia Prize. Original title: Tornit Original title: Enkelten kirja a unique story of death, revenge and atonement A young father’s stunningly intensely depicted from a true Master of Surprise. The Towers is a trial of strength in a time of difficulty perceptive and psychologically charged story, mixed Markku Pääskynen’s Book of Angels is an intense ICTION ICTION F with the elements of fantasy, erotica and horror. and poetic description of the waning of an F Jyrki Vainonen’s works have previously been likened individual’s strength and his slow ascent to fresh to those of Roald Dahl and Julio Cortàzar, and his hope. It is a story of consolation, a bold descrip- world is found in the wild no-man’s-land between tion of the grandeur of the small, everyday things reality and fantasy. in life, of the fundamental questions of existence. “The Towers is also the culmination of literary tradition, myths and Why, and for whom, do we live? What is love? dreams. – – The ingenious fantasy is appealing and enchanting.” – Keskisuomalainen Pääskynen once again exhibits an astounding ca- pacity, familiar to readers of Vihan päivä (The Day 8 aLSO avaILabLE: 9 of Wrath), to see deep into the human heart. in English: The Garden a short story | 2007 | Original title: Puutarha “Enkelten kirja is based mainly on sensory observations, Blueberries a short story | 2001 | Original title: Mustikoita thoughts, feelings and memories. The reader is compelled to The Pearl a short story | 1999 | Original title: Helmi remain attentive as the course of events and referential function of the story gradually become unveiled. – – It is nice to see a in German: novel that places so much confidence in the power of words.” Die Bibliothek a short story | 2007 | Original title: Kirjasto – Parnasso English Die Flasche a short story | 2007 | Original title: Pullo English Sample translation Der Stumme Gott an extract from novel Mykkä jumala | 2004 Sample translation in Hungarian: Egy madarász a short story | 2002 | Original title: Linnustaja Jari has written Peter Franzén’s novels, short On Dark Waters JaRI JäRvELä stories, plays, and PETER FRaNzéN was nominated for the Helsingin an opera libretto. His works have Sanomat Debutant of Romeo and Juliet been nominated On Dark Waters for several the Year Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 182 pages | 2007 | literary prizes. Hardcover | 134 x 213 mm | 319 pages | 2010 | Award 2010.