The renowned author Katja Kettu reads together with the translator and moderator Tanja Küddelsmann in an event organized by the German-Finnish Society and WEISSBOOKS Verlag.

Katja Kettu is back with a novel that is as intoxicating as it is harrowing: she travels through time and space, through the history of the remote Finnish borderlands with Soviet Russia and reveals the secrets that lie hidden in the heart of an ancient and wild land.

Through the power of language and with hints of magical realism, this novel not only captures the essence of the human experience, but also sheds a sharp light on the history and traditions of Finland's remote borderlands with Soviet Russia.

"Katja Kettu's novel is like a tornado that sweeps you away and leaves you amazed at what you have just experienced." - Maaria Ylikangas, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper

"An overwhelming reading experience." - Parnasso literary magazine

Katja Kettu, born in 1978, comes from Rovaniemi in Lapland. She is a writer, animation director and film producer. Her breakthrough came with the multi-award-winning novel "Wild Eye", which was made into a film in 2015 (The Midwife).
Kettu's works have been translated into 23 languages. Her novels "Wildauge" (2014), "Feuerherz" (2017) and "Die Unbezwingbare" (2021) have been published in German.