Klett-Cotta buys German rights to Johanna Sinisalo’s new novel The Core of the Sun!

Sinisalo_Auringon ydinWe are thrilled to announce that the German rights to Johanna Sinisalo‘s forthcoming novel The Core of the Sun (Auringon ydin, Teos 2013) have been sold to Klett-Cotta for publication in September 2014.

Johanna Sinisalo tells the story of The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland in 2013 in her new novel which will be published in September 2013. Taking place in alternative Finland, Johanna Sinisalo’s thriller-like story of flight and fight is also between the lines a feisty social polemic. How did Finland turn into the North-Korea of Europe?

The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has illegalized practically everything that might give you pleasure or cause addiction – except gambling and sex. Please read more by clicking here.

Johanna Sinisalo (b. 1958) is one of Finland’s most successful and internationally acclaimed authors. Praised by readers and critics alike, she has won several literary prizes, among them the Finlandia Prize in 2000 and the James Triptree, Jr. Award in 2004. Johanna Sinisalo has been nominated for the Prix Escapades 2012 and Nebula Awards 2008. Her works have been translated into 18 languages.

Johanna Sinisalo is one of the screenwriters of the comic science fiction action film Iron Sky (Energia Productions 2012).

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