August 2014: A New North: Contemporary Writing from Finland

August 2014: A New North: Contemporary Writing from Finland

This month we present fiction from Finland

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen's dementia patient loses his memory but develops second sight.

Sofi Oksanen pens a vivid recreation of the bombing of Talinn in 1940

Leena Krohn sends a writer to the reading from the hell

With new writing from Ukraine by Taras Antypovych, Tanya Malyarchuk, andSashko Ushkalov, introduced by Oleksandr Mykhed

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