The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is travelling to Estonia, where it will be published by Varrak.
The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is on a roll: this title is now travelling to Estonia, where it will be published by Varrak. This is the third foreign deal for this title, already nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for the best debut of the year.
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.
Linnea Kuuluvainen (b. 1996) is a Turku-based author with a background in literature and creative writing studies. Her prose is distinguishable for its magical realism and lyrical depth.
Varrak is an Estonian publishing house founded in 1991, and nowadays one of Estonia’s largest publishing houses. Its list ranges from intellectual non-fiction to a broad range of fiction, and children’s literature. Varrak is the Estonian home of celebrated authors like Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Salman Rushdie, James Joyce, Margaret Atwood, and many more.
Warmest congratulations to the author and the publisher!