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Rave U.S and UK reviews keep coming in for Salla Simukka’s As Red as Blood (Punainen kuin veri, Tammi 2013), Book 1 in the Snow White Trilogy. Most recently the book was featured in the Financial Times! Read the full review here.
“Lumikki is fit, resourceful and a mistress of disguise, able to transform her appearance at a moment’s notice…With its sex, drugs and violence, the world Lumikki infiltrates is amoral and cynical; a sophisticated tale, then, suavely translated by Owen F. Witesman.”
– Financial Times, August 15th
The book has previously received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist.
Next week, on August 28th, Simukka will visit Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C with Memory of Water author Emmi Itäranta. See here for information.
A Dream of Books, a blog by a UK librarian, has also praised As Red as Blood:
“Every chapter is brilliantly written, combining intrigue, deceit, danger and fear. An enticing blend of crime thriller and mystery, this was a fantastic read…I was swept away by the fantastic plot and the kick-ass heroine and I can’t wait to read more by this very talented author.”
– A Dream of Books literature blog, the UK
Salla Simukka (b. 1981) is the winner of the 2013 Topelius Prize for the best Finnish youth novel for Without a Trace (Jäljellä, Tammi 2012) and Elsewhere (Toisaalla, Tammi 2012), as well as the 2013 Finland Prize. The Snow White Trilogy comprises As Red as Blood (Punainen kuin veri, Tammi 2013), As White as Snow (Valkea kuin lumi, Tammi 2013) and As Black as Ebony (Musta kuin eebenpuu, Tammi 2014).
See the Snow White Trilogy trailer here.
The official Snow White Trilogy page: snowwhitetrilogy.wordpress.com
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RIGHTS SOLD IN 43 TERRITORIES:
Original publisher: FINLAND, Tammi
ALBANIA, Botime B-Books
ARAB WORLD, Arab Scientific
BELGIUM, Clavis
BRAZIL, Novo Conceito
BULGARIA, Egmont
CATALAN, La Galera
CHINA, Modern Press
CROATIA, Znanje
CZECH, Egmont
DENMARK, Gyldendal
ESTONIA, Pegasus
FAROE ISLANDS, Bókadeildin
FRANCE, Hachette Livre
GEORGIA, Bakur Sulakauri
GERMANY, Arena
GREECE, Metaixmio
HUNGARY, Athenaeum
ICELAND, Forlagid
INDONESIA, Kompas Gramedia/Bhuana Ilmu Populer
ISRAEL, Yedioth
ITALY, Mondadori
JAPAN, Nishimura
KOREA, Gimm Young
LATVIA, Zvaigzne
LITHUANIA, Alma Littera
MALAYSIA, Buku Fixi
NETHERLANDS, Clavis
NORWAY, Gyldendal
POLAND, Foksal/WAB
PORTUGAL, Presença
ROMANIA, Trei
RUSSIA, Eksmo
SERBIA, Vulkan
SLOVAKIA, Verbarium
SLOVENIA, Mladinska
SPAIN, La Galera
SWEDEN, Rabén & Sjögren
TAIWAN, Emily Publishing
THAILAND, Nanmee Books
TURKEY, Altin Kitaplar
UK, Hot Key Books
U.S, Amazon Publishing/Skyscape
VIETNAM, Alpha Books
Reading material:
English edition of book 1
French edition of book 1
German sample of book 1
Italian sample of book 1
Complex Chinese sample of book 1
Simplified Chinese sample of book 1
Finnish editions of books 1-3
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