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  • The Rabbit Factor: The tense, hilarious bestseller from the 'Funniest writer in Europe' … FIRST in a series and soon to be a major motion picture

    by Antti Tuomainen ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    Series Book 1 - The Rabbit Factor
    An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, FIRST in a series…**Soon to be a major motion picture starring Steve Carell for Amazon Studios**'Laconic, thrilling and warmly human. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    The Rabbit Factor

    by Antti Tuomainen ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the last decimal. And then, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother - its troubling financial problems included. The worst of these issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Winter Job

    by Antti Tuomainen ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he's desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bolla

    A Novel

    by Pajtim Statovci ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    **From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.“Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beasts of the Sea

    A Novel

    by Iida Turpeinen ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    “Turpeinen matches the heights of Andrea Barrett” in this sweeping and intimate tale about a fateful encounter between man and nature spanning three centuries and linked by a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans (Publishers Weekly starred review).In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering’s Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Cow Gives Birth at Night

    A Novel

    by Pajtim Statovci ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    From the celebrated author of Crossing, a finalist for the National Book Award, a piercing, candid novel about a man haunted by the violence of his past and a family ruptured by the war that ravaged their homeland, for readers of Douglas Stuart, Jenny Erpenbeck, Ocean Vuong, and Garth Greenwell.1996: a boy raised in Finland spends the summer at his grandfather’s house in Kosovo, a time that will ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Cat Yugoslavia

    A Novel

    by Pajtim Statovci ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat.In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crossing

    A Novel

    by Pajtim Statovci ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    **NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTFrom the acclaimed author of My Cat Yugoslavia: a stunning, incandescent new novel that speaks to identity, war, exile, love, betrayal, and heartbreak**The death of head of state Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend, Agim—who is facing his own realizations ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    A Cow Gives Birth at Night

    A Novel

    by Pajtim Statovci ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    From the celebrated author of Crossing, a finalist for the National Book Award, a piercing, candid novel about a man haunted by the violence of his past and a family ruptured by the war that ravaged their homeland, for readers of Douglas Stuart, Jenny Erpenbeck, Ocean Vuong, and Garth Greenwell.1996: a boy raised in Finland spends the summer at his grandfather’s house in Kosovo, a time that will ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Rabbit Factor Trilogy

    by Antti Tuomainen ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    Series Book 0 - The Rabbit Factor Trilogy
    Get ALL THREE books in the hilarious, award-winning, internationally bestselling Rabbit Factor trilogy in one GREAT VALUE set!An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is upended when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with criminals, desperate schemes, dangerous enemies, impossibly high stakes and the bewildering chaos of family life. A darkly funny, tense ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy

    by Johanna Sinisalo ...
    he latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories includes a wide range of texts covering the period from nineteenth century until today. The richness and diversity of the stories reflects the long tradition of fantasy in Finnish literature, ranging from the classics to experimental literature, from satire to horror. This is the first collection of Finnish ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Palm Beach, Finland

    by Antti Tuomainen ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    ***Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award******Book of the Year in The Times***Things don't go entirely to plan when undercover ace detective Jan Nyman is sent to the 'hottest beach in Finland' to investigate a suspicious death. Fargo meets Baywatch in a mesmerising, poignant dark-comedy thriller by the King of Helsinki Noir'A roller-coaster read and extraordinarily poignant' Guardian</e.. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD