Karkkipäivä

Ari, a novelist polishing a screenplay, buys a little boy his sweets in a shop queue and gains a shadow. Tomi roams outdoors on his own, recognises the marks a blow leaves, and believes he is Tok Kilmoori, a hero who must find a helper and free Princess Mirabella. Gradually Ari realises the boy's parents are no help to him, and begins to fear that a little girl next door really is locked up and kept hungry by her mother. Their stories intersect with those of Paula, an energetic workplace planner who manages her own child like a project and is coming apart, and Katri, a veteran child-welfare worker reading between the lines of reports. Over a few days, partly told through official documents, routines crack and everyone must ask who is truly in need of rescue.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

383 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland

First published

2010 by Otava

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789511245742 (original)

More

Wikidata