![]() ![]() Jeff VanderMeer cites it as a pioneering work of New Weird fiction it is the only work in translation to appear in VanderMeer’s list of crucial New Weird texts and in excerpted form in his and Ann VanderMeer’s genre defining anthology The New Weird (2008). ![]() Startlingly original yet reminiscent in places of Italo Calvino or Franz Kafka, it is the perfect introduction to Krohn’s idiosyncratic and powerful work. The novel tells the story of a woman visiting a city inhabited by insect people, and is told through her unanswered letters home. Her novel Tainaron: Mail From Another City was written in Finnish in 1985, and when it was translated into English by Hildi Hawkins in 2004 it was nominated for multiple awards. ![]() Leena Krohn is one of Finland’s most iconic and inventive writers. ![]()
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