Kohti

Waiting at Helsinki airport with a gin and tonic, cabinet minister Tapani Ansas is about to fly to Thailand on a trip nobody must know about. His daughter Julia walked out a year ago, leaving only a note. Now she has surfaced, half recognisable, in a television report from Khao Lak, the coast wrecked by the tsunami. Her brother Jussi, a banker, meets their father in Bangkok, and the pair go looking for her. Julia is not glad to see them, and among the palms and cocktails of the resort the family's awkward intimacy is slowly stripped back, in a story told in several clashing voices.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

428 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, Thailand

First published

2007 by Otava

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9789511219460 (original)