The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (Dedalus Literary Fantasy Anthologies)

10 best books like The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (Dedalus Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (Johanna Sinisalo): The Tombs of Atuan, Wilder Girls, Walden, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Year of the Hare, The Snow Child, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Kalevala, How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, The Flying Sorcerers

The Tombs of Atuan
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0689845367
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When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away - home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the...
Wilder Girls
AuthorRory Power
ISBN0525645586
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off...
Walden
AuthorHenry David Thoreau
ISBN0691096120
Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer...
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
AuthorSeth Dickinson
ISBN0765380722
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails on the horizon.

The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. They'll conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose...
The Year of the Hare
AuthorArto Paasilinna
ISBN0720612772
ENGLISH (The Year of the Hare) / ITALIANO

Vatanen, a Finnish journalist, is in conflict with his life. The dissatisfaction comes out one day after hitting a hare. After rescue the wild animal, inexplicably Vatanen running through the woods together with his new friend. He starts down a path...
The Snow Child
AuthorEowyn Ivey
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
AuthorHaruki Murakami
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of...
The Kalevala
AuthorElias Lönnrot


When Elias Lönnrot was born in 1802, Finland was a province of Sweden; by the time he came to compile the Kalevala in the 1830s and 1840s, it was part of the Russian Empire. ‘Finnishness’ was (and had been since the twelfth century) little more than a shared idea, and sometimes a dangerous...
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0544938321
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.

Understanding someone who belongs to another...
The Flying Sorcerers
AuthorDavid Gerrold
ISBN1932100237
This funny and insightful science fiction classic introduces Shoogar, the greatest wizard ever known in his village. His spells can strike terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies. But the enemy he faces now is like none he has ever seen before. The stranger has come from nowhere and is ignorant...
AuthorDoris Egan
ISBN0886775000
You know, I think in some ways I liked this follow up even better than the first book. I just adore these characters. And plenty of new and interesting characters were introduced here. I love the way Theodora's character narrates the story, there's so much humor injected. (The salad incident! I love the...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN0544558146
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
Maresi
AuthorMaria Turtschaninoff
ISBN9515234719
Den tredje boken i Maria Turtschaninoffs fantasyvärld utspelar sig flera generationer efter Arra och Anaché. På en liten ö ligger Röda klostret, en tillflyktsort för förföljda och utsatta flickor och kvinnor från alla de kända länderna. Där bevaras hemlig kunskap om Gudinnan med hennes...
Im Jenseits ist die Hölle los
AuthorArto Paasilinna
ISBN3404922247
»Mein Tod kam für mich völlig überraschend.« So kann es gehen, wenn »Mann« beim Überqueren einer Straße allzu intensiv einer jungen Frau hinterherschaut und von einem Auto erfasst wird. Doch überraschender ist für den soeben verstorbenen Journalisten, dass er fortan als Geist über...
Who Will Comfort Toffle?
AuthorTove Jansson
ISBN9515004691

A SCANDINAVIAN MIDCENTURY CLASSIC BACK IN PRINT
Who Will Comfort Toffle? is the timeless, magical tale of the wistful wallflower, Toffle–too shy to speak to anyone and too fearful of the world he is watching from afar. Lonely and sad, Toffle runs away from home and watches the magical cast...
The Howling Miller
AuthorArto Paasilinna
ISBN1841959561
When Gunnar Huttunen turns up in a small village to restore a dilapidated mill, its inhabitants are instinctively wary. He's big. He's a bit odd. And he's a stranger. Everyone loves his brilliant animal impressions but these feelings soon sour when he starts to howl wildly at night.

And once...
Kudottujen kujien kaupunki
AuthorEmmi Itäranta
The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous island world.

Eliana...
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