Books from Finland - A literary journal of writing from and about Finland.

Monika Fagerholm’s novel Den amerikanska flickan has been published by the Other Press of New York.

The American Girl was characterised by Publisher’s Weekly as ‘a hypnotic coming-of-age story that hinges on a dark but powerful bond between two Finnish girls growing up in the swamplands of outer Helsinki’.

The translator is Katarina E. Tucker. The original appeared in 2004 (Söderströms, 2004; Finnish translation, Amerikkalainen tyttö, Otava, 2004). The sequel, Glitterscenen (‘The Glitter Scene’, in Finnish translation, Säihkenäyttämö) was published last autumn.