<b>An award-winning epic tale set in the magical Finnish wilderness
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<b><i>According to rumour, the people of Nevabacka had a hint of magic in their blood, because one of their ancestors had lain with a woman of the forest folk...</i></b>
An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen.
Their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone: a young girl entranced by the forest folk, a faithless fiance who meets his match beneath the age-old branches, a farmhand with a strange obsession...
What endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us, too.
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Turtschaninoff has a wonderful skill of building unique characters, even if they appear for only one chapter in the book... Tangled Roots is a beautiful and thought-provoking novel * Thank You for the Book Awards jury * An immersive reading experience guaranteed -- Isabelle Falconnier * Le Matin Dimanche, France * Maria Turtschaninoff, an outstanding storyteller, creates a wonderful lyrical novel following several generations from the Middle Ages to the present day. You just have to taste this touching fresh breath of air -- Thierry Boillot * L'Alsace, France * Even if it is fiction, Maria Turtschaninoff has no equal when it comes to diving deep into the spirit of an era -- Elena Balzamo * Le Monde des Livres, France *
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
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978-1-80533-013-4 (9781805330134)
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Maria Turtschaninoff is known for crafting lyrical, historically inspired stories filled with magic and fantasy. She has won numerous prizes, including the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, the Swedish YLE Literature Prize and Finlandia Junior Prize, as well as being nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her YA trilogy, The Red Abbey Chronicles, has sold in 31 territories around the world. Tangled Roots is Maria's first adult novel.