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Fishing for the Little Pike
- Author
- Juhani Karila
- Narrator
- Emma Fenney
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 7 October 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to her remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the pike in a local pond or she and the love of her life will both die. This year her task is made more difficult by the intervention of a host of deadly supernatural creatures and a murder detective on her tail.
Can Elina catch the pike and put to rest the curse that has been hanging over her head since a youthful love affair turned sour? Can Sergeant Janatuinen make it back to civilization in one piece? And just why is Lapland in summer so weird?
Fishing for the Little Pike is an audacious, genre-defying blend of fantasy, folk tale, and nature writing.
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Details
- Author
- Juhani Karila
- Narrator
- Emma Fenney
- Duration
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331988760
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Magical realism, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
In the utterly original, genre-defying, English language debut of Finnish author Juhani Karila, a young woman's annual pilgrimage to her home in Lapland to catch an elusive pike in three days is complicated by a host of mythical creatures, a murder detective hot on her trail, and a deadly curse hanging over her head.When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to her remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the pike in a local pond or she and the love of her life will both die. This year her task is made more difficult by the intervention of a host of deadly supernatural creatures and a murder detective on her tail.Can Elina catch the pike and put to rest the curse that has been hanging over her head since a youthful love affair turned sour? Can Sergeant Janatuinen make it back to civilization in one piece? And just why is Lapland in summer so weird?Fishing for the Little Pike is an audacious, genre-defying blend of fantasy, folk tale, and nature writing.
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