Books
Modern Classics (52)
The Death of Orvar Klein
Orvar Kleinin kuolema
The Death of Orvar Klein is a novel about the life of Orvar Klein, about how thi...
The Ten Shrews
Kymmenen riivinrautaa
Rauno Rämekorpi, a rich Finnish industrialist, is celebrating his sixtieth birt...
Christmas Stories
Joulutarinoita
The topics of Mika Waltari's Christmas stories range from the life of an artist ...
One Night Stands
Yhden yön pysäkki
The writing of One Night Stands consists of only very short narratives; they res...
Moraine
Moreeni
Lauri Viita’s first novel Moraine was published in 1950. Along with his first ...
The Book of Snouts
Suomalainen kärsäkirja
Born in a circus in Kerava, southern Finland, the little baby elephant could nev...
The Wanton Prayer Wheel
Rietas rukousmylly
Two Finnish sales reps on a promotional tour for a prayer wheel have a string of...
Cold Nerves, Hot Blood
Kylmät hermot, kuuma veri
In January 1918, a baby boy is born into a war-torn Finland. According to the mi...
Saviour Surunen
Vapahtaja Surunen
The highly distinguished professor Surunen, Finnish member of Amnesty Internatio...
Dark Paradise
Tyhjän tien paratiisit
A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents—but in the sharp, icy prose and deta...
A Stranger Came to the Farm
Vieras mies tuli taloon
A farm labourer arrives at an isolated farm seeking work. The farm's manager is ...
The Grand Illusion
Suuri illusioni
Mika Waltari’s intense debut novel The Grand Illusion from 1928 has always f...
Finding Granddad
Isoisää etsimässä
Aukusti’s Grandad, the eccentric old man Verneri Väisänen, has gone missing....
Moonscape
Kuun maisema
Mika Waltari's literary ambitions were channelled into the two genres that would...
Good Heavens!
Herranen aika
The main character, a newspaper editor who has lived a superficial life, gets ru...
God Almighty
Auta armias
Birger Ryynänen works as a crane driver in Helsinki. Behind him lie a failed ma...
Adam and Eve
Aatami ja Eeva
The unparalleled success story of a Finnish entrepreneur, Adam, who, despite str...
Prisoners of Paradise
Paratiisisaaren vanget
A plane travelling on a UN mission makes an emergency landing in a remote corner...
The Son of the Thunder God
Ukkosenjumalan poika
The Finnish people clearly no longer believe in their own gods. This is the verd...
The Sweet Poison Cook
Suloinen myrkynkeittäjä
Sweet Linnea Ravaska lives on a small croft in the remote village of Harmisto. I...
The Reverend’s Beastly Valet
Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelija
The wilful reverend Huuskonen is performing a marriage ceremony, but it ends in ...
Life Short, Rytkönen Tall
Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä
Honoured land surveyor Taavetti Rytkönen remembers the old days like they were ...
The Forest of Hanged Foxes
Hirtettyjen kettujen metsä
Three small-time crooks in Stockholm become fed up with poverty and rob a handso...
The Howling Miller
Ulvova mylläri
Gunnar Huttunen is a troubled miller, who moves to a small village where he beau...
The Year of the Hare
Jäniksen vuosi
Arto Paasilinna has invented a new genre: ecological humourVatanen the journalis...
Who Murdered Mrs. Skrof?
Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin?
Mrs. Skrof, a wealthy and hated woman belonging to a religious sect, is found de...
Inspector Palmu’s Mistake
Komisario Palmun erehdys
One of the best-known Finnish detective novels, with a legendary and unforgettab...
Young Johannes
Nuori Johannes
Waltari’s prequel about the early life of John Angelos, published posthumously...
The Roman
Ihmiskunnan viholliset
Memoirs of the Roman senator Minutus Lausus Manilianus covering the years 46–7...
The Etruscan
Turms kuolematon
"Warrior, lover, I defied both Gods and men" The story of Turms, the immortal, ...
The Adventurer
Mikael Karvajalka
Thrilling and fantastic adventures of the young Michael the Finn across Europe i...
The Wanderer
Mikael Hakim
The adventures of the confidential adviser to the Grand Vizier of Suleiman the...
Onneli and Anneli series
Onnelin ja Annelin kootut kertomukset
Onneli and Anneli’s House
(Onnelin ja Annelin talo, 1966)
It’s fun to li...
The Secret of the Kingdom
Valtakunnan salaisuus
A magnificent novel of the forty days after Christ rose from the deadWaltari’s...
The Dark Angel
Johannes Angelos
The sweeping powerful story of the fall of ConstantinopleIn the spring of 1453, ...
A Pier out to the Sea
Laituri matkalla mereen
On love, war and morality
Daniel Katz writes intensive, painful and h...
Schweinehund
Saksalainen sikakoira
Schweinehund is classic Katz: multilayered, ironic, sceptical of official trut...
The Egyptian
Sinuhe egyptiläinen
Great novel of human beings, human passions and seething humanity, spiced with w...
Clumsy Guardian Angel
Tohelo suojelusenkeli
Look up to the skies, for the heavenly troops are always ready to help us in our...
A Charming Mass Suicide
Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
Onni Rellonen has reached a dead end and the only way out seems to be a revolver...
War Horse
Sotahevonen
It is March 1942. The protagonists of this incredible spy adventure are the bold...
Under the North Star I-III
Täällä Pohjantähden alla
Väinö Linna’s magnum opus, the Under the North Star trilogy, reaches from ea...
The Unknown Soldier
Tuntematon sotilas
The Finnish masterpiece of men at war
One of Finland’s best-loved...