The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is now travelling to Bulgaria, where it will be published by Colibri.
More amazing news: The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is travelling to Bulgaria, where it will be published by Colibri. This is the second foreign deal for this title.
The Thick of the Forest is set in a near future where nature has started fighting back against human exploitation, destroying the world as we know it. Mixing elements from Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in the unique setting of a Finnish forest capable of utter destruction, The Thick of the Forest is an entrancing and linguistically captivating first novel about a forest that haunts people and two women, Edla and Ingrid, whose stories intersect.
The result is a rich telling of the relationship between mankind and nature, and of how the lines dividing them become increasingly blurry in the depth of the forest. In Finland, the book is published by Gummerus, and was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for the best debut of the year.
Colibri is a Bulgarian publishing house with a broad list, including classics like Zola and Shakespeare, prominent contemporary authors like Salman Rushdie, Ian Mc Ewan, Joel Dicker, and our very own Selja Ahava.
Warm congratulations to the author and the publisher!