JUHANI KARILA
© Laura Malmivaara
Juhani Karila (b. 1985) 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 lives in Helsinki, Finland.
By Patrícia Melo
Translated from the Portuguese by Sophie Lewis
Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro 2024 in the category Best Foreing Novel
Longlisted for the prestigious Prix Fémina 2023 in the category Best Foreign Novel
Nominated for the Prix des libraires du Québec
From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression—by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063465
Publication date: Dec 5, 2023