Author Kari Hotakainen, one of Finland’s most prolific and famous authors, has just returned to the literary scene with a new novel, Pearl.
In Pearl, a childless couple goes on a mushroom-picking trip in the woods and runs into an elderly woman who seems very confused and can’t even remember her name. Puzzled by the situation, but nevertheless excited to have someone to take care of, the couple take the elderly woman in to live with them, and the trio form an unlikely family. The elderly woman, however, is not a baby and she has quite a bit in her past: it’s only a matter of time before she recovers her memory, or someone shows up to jumpstart it.
Humorous, touching, and heart-warming, Pearl takes readers on an unexpected journey.
Pearl is being distributed in the Kesko group grocery shops, one of the leading distributors in Finland with over 1000 selling points. The first print run counts 35.000 copies and the project has the declared goal of boosting reading among the public by reaching readers as widely as possible.
Congratulations to the author!