Terminaali

Paula and Sara are still in primary school when, in the early 1990s, they start hanging around Helsinki-Vantaa airport. In time their pastime becomes a worldwide scene of young women who live on the move between airports. The girls' own trip begins on 11 September 2001, aboard a flight that never makes it to New York. In February 2010 Paula, long missing, is flown back from Morocco in handcuffs and committed to a mental hospital; Sara, who now has a job at the airport, spots her and sees that she is expecting. Paula soon escapes and vanishes. Her father, Johan Lampen, is a coast guard commodore from Hiittinen who lost his own father to the sea at eight and has lived ever since by the rescuers' creed; looking for his daughter leads him to the Pacific.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

453 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1990s–2010

First published

2013 by Siltala

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789522341747 (original)