Kawade Shobo Shinsha has secured the Japanese rights to Fishing For The Little Pike by Juhani Karila. This marks 21 foreign language areas for this title.
Fishing For The Little Pike by Juhani Karila is travelling to Japan, where it will be published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha. The book has been an international hit, and Japanese will be the 21st language it is published in.
Fishing For The Little Pike follows a young woman, Elina, who every year must travel to her home village in Eastern Lapland and fish a specific pond from a specific pike, lest she and her childhood sweetheart die. This year, however, fate has gotten in the way in the form of a water sprite who has taken over the pond, and in the form of a detective who is Elina’s trail on suspicion of murder. As the summer solstice approaches and mosquito season is in full swing in the heart of Lapland, Elina must find a way to fish the pike, and make peace with her past.
Fishing For The Little Pike has been a wonderful literary success: its English-language editions, out with Restless Books and Pushkin Press on opposite sides of the Atlantic, have been highly praised and welcomed with raving reviews and the book continues to gather attention from international publishers, readers, and critics. In Finland, where the book is published by Siltala, it was awarded the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize, the Lapland Literature Prize, and the Jarkko Laine Literature Prize.
Juhani Karila is an author and journalist based in Helsinki, with a background in quirky short stories. Fishing For The Little Pike is his first novel.
Kawade Shobo Shinsha is one of Japan’s leading publishers of books and has secured the rights in a deal brought to us by Tuttle Mori Literary Agency. Kawade Shobo Shinsha have over a century of experience in the publishing industry, having started in 1886. They have since then been the home of domestic bestsellers like Amy Yamada’s “Bed Time-Eyes” (1985) and Machi Tawara’s “Salad Memorial Day”(1987) and of international authors of high profile like Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Vladmir Nabokov, Desmond Morris, and our very own Iida Turpeinen, among others.
Warmest congratulations to the author and the publisher!