Norstedts has pre-empted the Swedish rights to Mirabilis by Anni Kytömäki. This is the second pre-empt in two days for this hot title, already a sensation in Finland.
Mirabilis by Anni Kytömäki has quickly become the hot book of autumn 2024 and has been turning heads at the Frankfurt fair: Norstedts has pre-empted the Swedish rights, marking the second pre-empt in two days for this title, which is already a sensation in Finland, where it sold over 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.
Norstedts is one of Sweden’s largest and most established publishers, whose list includes world-class authors like Annie Ernaux, Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Atwood, and Colm Tóibín.
In Finland, Mirabilis is published by Gummerus.
Warmest congratulations to the author and the publishers!