Land of Snow and Ashes

Name: Land of Snow and Ashes
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SKU: 9781782277361
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By Petra Rautiainen

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Set in Finnish Lapland during and after the Second World War, Land of Snow and Ashes follows a young Finnish soldier forced to serve as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp, confronting horrors that test his humanity. Years later, journalist Inkeri investigates the rapid development of Western Lapland and the mysterious disappearance of her husband during the war. Her inquiries uncover painful silences and hidden truths among the villagers, revealing a haunting tale of suppressed histories, survival, and enduring oppression beneath the stark polar landscape.
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This novel will appeal to readers of historical and literary fiction interested in wartime narratives, Nordic settings, and stories exploring the lasting impact of conflict on communities and individuals.

A hauntingly beautiful, gripping novel about Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes against the Sami people.

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Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young Finnish soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold on to his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice.

A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war.

But the villagers don't want to dwell on the past, and Inkeri's questions provoke hostility and suspicious silences. As she learns more about her mysterious tenant, Olavi, and tries to befriend a young Sami girl, she begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light.

From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.

Land of Snow and Ashes offers a profound exploration of hidden narratives and the resilience of the human spirit amidst adversity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782277361

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press

Contributors:

Translated by David Hackston

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Petra Rautiainen was born in 1988 in a small town in Eastern Finland. Petra has travelled around the world, studied in the UK and worked in Canada, New Zealand and Scotland. Since childhood, she has been inspired by the barren nature of the Arctic areas, and hiking is her greatest passion. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on representations of the Sami people in the Finnish media. Land of Snow and Ashes is her debut novel.

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