Secret Passages in a Hillside Town

About the author

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen is Finland's best kept literary secret. In the early '70s, when he was five, Pasi lived in a block of flats by an old cemetery and believed in vampires. In the early '80s he still had vampire dreams and fell in love with Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut's Jules et Jim. Ten years later Pasi wrote his first short stories.
He won the writing competition for science fiction and fantasy stories four times, and then decided to become a writer. Now he is an author, but he is also a teacher of Finnish language and literature in a secondary school and the father of three sons. He hasn't stopped loving vampires, Jeanne Moreau or classic films. The Rabbit Back Literature Society is his first book to be published in English.
Lola Rogers is a full-time literary translator living in Seattle. Her published translations include works by Sofi Oksanen, Riikka Pulkkinen and Antti Tuomainen. Her translation of Oksanen's novel Purge was chosen as a best book of 2010 by The Sunday Times and several other publications. She has also contributed translations of fiction, non-fiction and poetry to numerous journals and anthologies.

Product details

• Authors: Jaaskelainen Pasi Ilmari
• Assisted by: Rogers Lola (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2018
• EAN: 9781782274063
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-406-3
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, Finland, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Fantasy / Romance