Every year, Elina Yliääkkö returns to her home village in Eastern Lapland to catch pike in a microscopic forest lake. This fish keeps a secret on which Elina’s life depends.
This year, everything goes wrong. A water spirit interferes with the fishing—and soon, on the pages of the novel, a whole line of people and strange creatures appears: “voblins,” brooding little creatures, striped-legs, cackle-backs… The fishing turns into a desperate adventure.
This is a book about loving others—and loving yourself. It’s a book about the most basic prehistoric things. But it’s a modern book, where peat-beech trees, drowned bodies, and forest spirits live next door and ride in the back seat of your Corolla.