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Päijänteen ristiselällä kamppailee pieni vene vihaisten aaltojen armoilla. Veneessä istuvat mies sekä nainen. Naisen kasvot ovat valkeat. Hän puristaa lasta rintaansa vasten. Suuri aalto lyö kohti venettä ja pirstoo sen kappaleiksi. Kuka perheestä selviää, vai selviääkö kukaan?

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we come up against the definition of Northern Europe. There are many, each with plausibility and each so obvious. So, here’s ours.

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In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? In this volume the once forgotten literary backwaters of Scandinavia, and its hinterland, reveal the storied works of their own literature. Some names are familiar, some decidedly not. But each has literary talents and compelling narratives.

Pikku-Heikki tekee itselleen kaarnalaivan ja laskee sen vesille. Pian häntä kuitenkin harmittaa, ettei itse lähtenyt mukaan. Samassa hänen eteensä ilmestyy aaltojen kuningas Ahti. Ahti vie Heikin vesien syvyyksiin salaperäiseen Ahtolan kartanoon.

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