White hunger

ISBN: 9781908670205 (paperback)
Physical Description: print regular print 136 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: London : Peirene, 2015.
Copyright: &copy;2015.

Ollikainen, Aki 1973- (author.). Jeremiah, Fleur, 1947- (translator.).

Summary: 1867: a year of devastating famine in Finland. Marja, a farmer's wife from the north, sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children. Their goal: St Petersburg, where people say there is bread. Others are also heading south, just as desperate to survive. Ruuni, a boy she meets, seems trustworthy. But can anyone really help? Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Like Cormac McCarthy's The Road, this apocalyptic tale deals with the human will to survive. And let me be honest: There will come a point in this book where you can take no more of the snow-covered desolation. But then the first rays of spring sun appear and our belief in the human spirit revives.