Join us for a reading and signing with Finnish author Juhani Karila for his new novel, Fishing for the Little Pike.
Where: Clio’s Books (353 Grand Avenue Oakland, CA 94610)
When: 6:00pm on Saturday, October 7th 2023
Juhani Karila is an award-winning author and journalist with a master’s in communication theory. In 2010, Karila won the J.H. Erkko Award, and his first collection of short stories Gorilla (2013), was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Prize. His second collection, The Death of the Apple Crocodile (2016), is a series of connected stories about the collision of large and small worlds. Karila’s debut novel Fishing for the Little Pike (2019) won the Kalevi Jäntti Prize, the Tähtifantasia Prize, and the Jarkko Laine Prize. He currently lives in Helsinki, Finland.
By Ani Gjika
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632063403
Publication date: Nov 14, 2023