Summer Fishing in Lapland

A brilliantly weird literary fantasy set in a Lapland filled with mythical creaturesWhen 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 even 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 ever since a youthful love affair turned sour? Can Sergeant Janatuinen make it back to civilisation in one piece? And just why is Lapland in summer so weird?Summer Fishing in Lapland is an audacious, genre-defying blend of fantasy, folk tale and nature writing.



JUHANI KARILA is an author and award-winning journalist who was born and raised in Finnish Lapland. Summer Fishing in Lapland is his debut novel. It was published in 2019, winning widespread acclaim and numerous prizes in Finland, and is being translated into 17 languages around the world.LOLA ROGERS is a literary translator living in Seattle. She has translated dozens of Finnish novels, short stories, poems, comics, and children's books, for which she has won two English PEN Awards and the Prometheus Award. Her translations for Pushkin Press include The Rabbit Back Literature Society and Secret Passages in a Hillside Town by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen.