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- Translated by
- David Hackston
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- The Rabbit Factor
2021
EN
An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, FIRST in a series…**Soon to be a major motion picture starring Steve Carell for Amazon Studios**'Laconic, thrilling and warmly human. In these uncertain times, what better hero t...
- Translated by
- David Hackston
- Book 0 -
- The Rabbit Factor Trilogy
2026
EN
Get ALL THREE books in the hilarious, award-winning, internationally bestselling Rabbit Factor trilogy in one GREAT VALUE set!An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is upended when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with criminals, desperate schemes, dangerous enemies, impossibly high stakes and the bewildering chaos of family life. A darkly funny, tense and brilliantly offbeat trilogy from award-winning Finnish auth...
A Cow Gives Birth at Night
A Novel
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- David Hackston
2027
EN
From a finalist for the National Book Award, a piercing novel about a writer haunted by the violence of his past and a family ruptured by war, for readers of Douglas Stuart, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Ocean Vuong.1996: a boy raised in Finland spends the summer at his grandfather’s house in Kosovo, a time that will mark him for the rest of his life, isolating him from his family and ensconcing him in a life of the mind, the complex escape of imagination.Decades la...
Available Jan 26, 2027
- Translated by
- David Hackston
2019
EN
The critically acclaimed novel about two young men on a fearless journey across cities, borders and identities Imagine . . . we can do anything now, we can be anyone, we can go anywhere Bujar's world is collapsing. His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger and unrest. When his fearless friend Agim is discovered wearing his mother's red dress and beaten with his father's belt, he persuades Bujar that there is no place for them in their country. Desperate for a chan...
- Translated by
- David Hackston
2018
EN
An internationally acclaimed debut novel about war, family, love and belonging - and a talking cat Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war and she flees with her family. Decades later Emine's son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in Finland; both an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, and a gay man in an unaccepting so...
Beasts of the Sea
A Novel
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- David Hackston
2025
EN
“Turpeinen matches the heights of Andrea Barrett” in this sweeping and intimate tale about a fateful encounter between man and nature spanning three centuries and linked by a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans (Publishers Weekly starred review).In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering’s Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia to America. Plagued with hardships, captain and crew never reach thei...
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- David Hackston
2018
EN
***Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award******Book of the Year in The Times***Things don't go entirely to plan when undercover ace detective Jan Nyman is sent to the 'hottest beach in Finland' to investigate a suspicious death. Fargo meets Baywatch in a mesmerising, poignant dark-comedy thriller by the King of Helsinki Noir'A roller-coaster read and extraordinarily poignant' Guardian
The Burning Stones
The nail-bitingly tense, darkly funny new thriller from the author of The Man Who Died
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- David Hackston
2024
EN
A top saleswoman at a Finnish sauna company must outwit the police and a murderer when her boss is found dead … in a sauna. A darkly funny, tense new thriller from 'The funniest writer in Europe´ ( The Times)`The best comic crime novel you'll read this year´ Abir Mukherjee`Suspense is uppermost in this adroit mix of psychological thriller, whodunnit and middle-aged rom-com. Comedy is still pervasive … the novel's glorious gallery o...
The Moose Paradox
The outrageously funny, tense sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Rabbit Factor
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- David Hackston
- Book 2 -
- The Rabbit Factor
2022
EN
Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company … Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second instalment in Antti Tuomainen's bestselling series…'In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary?' Chris Brookmyre'One of those rare writers who manages to deftly balance intrigue, n...
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- David Hackston
2017
EN
When Finnish mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko discovers that he has been slowly poisoned, he sets out to find his would-be murderer … with dark and hilarious results. The critically acclaimed standalone thriller from the King of Helsinki Noir…***Shortlisted for the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year******Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award***'Right up there with the best' Times Literary Sup...
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- David Hackston
2026
EN
Once Ida nearly died at the hands of a killer. Now she's trying to live again, to forget the monsters in her head. But the nightmares are coming back, more terrible than ever.Because Ida, now working as a journalist, has uncovered evidence of a serial killer stalking Helsinki's streets. And no one - not Ida, not homicide officer Kerttu Leppänen, tortured by her own demons - can stop them.Sometimes the monsters are real. And hunting them can destroy you.
Bolla
A Novel
- Translated by
- David Hackston
2021
EN
**From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.“Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby**April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recentl...











