Mirabilis by Anni Kytömäki has been pre-empted to People’s in Denmark. Mirabilis is already a sensation in the making on the domestic market, where it sold 7000 copies in just a couple of weeks.
Mirabilis by Anni Kytömäki is in the spotlight at the Frankfurt fair: People’s has pre-empted the Danish rights to the title, already a sensation in Finland where it sold 7.000 copies in its first weeks.
Mirabilis is a great novel of journeys and adventure following two generations of outcast women, both of whom share a deep bond with nature. Mirabilis starts out at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, and carries the reader all the way to the 1930s in a journey that stretches from Finland to the Amur, and still further on. Riikka is a young woman of unusual strength, who makes the brave decision of leaving for the Amur on a colonial expedition, and becomes fascinated with a tiger in a way that will mark her forever. Along the way she gives birth to a set of twins, one of whom is a girl, Ella. Unconventional like her mother, and determined to live life on her own terms, Ella becomes an acrobat and brushes with death one too many times. As a result, Ella developed a strong connection to a recently extinct bird, and a strong interest in the scientific discourse around extinction. These ingredients, along with unanswered questions from the past, result in a epic narrative that draws readers in, and that one never wishes to leave.
Anni Kytömäki is one of Finland’s strongest and most-loved contemporary voices. She won the Finlandia Prize in 2020 with Margarita, which sold about 90.000 copies in Finland alone.
People’s is a mid-sized Danish publishing house with an extensive fiction list including authors like Delphine de Vigan, David Mitchell and Magda Szabo. They are also the Danish home of Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, slated for 2025, and the Cotton Mill Trilogy by Ann-Christin Antell.
People’s CEO Line Miller has stated:
“Christel [Brinkløv] and I are both completely blown away
By the scope, ambition and scale of MIRABILIS. What a feat! The drive of the story, the depth of the characterizations, the sheer height of the idea – what a marvel!”
In Finland, Mirabilis is published by Gummerus.
Warmest congratulations to the author and the publishers!