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We are extremely happy to announce that Estonian rights for Saara Turunen’s IRRATIONAL THINGS have been acquired by Eesti Raamat!
Eesti Raamat is one of the most important publishing houses in Estonia, having published over 900 literary titles.
They are also Estonian publishers for Thomas Mann, Kjell Westö, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Herman Melville, Sigrid Undset, Selma Lagerlöf, Gustave Flaubert etc.
Saara Turunen’s IRRATIONAL THINGS discusses not only love but also writing about it. Is love a suitable subject to deal with if you want to be taken seriously? And what is love really? Is it comparable to the class system, a way of controlling property and heritage, or something else, something difficult to explain but unavoidable, for all of us to deal with at some point of our lives.
The narrator of the book, a nameless woman, travels to Barcelona. She meets a foreign man and falls in love with him. The man is the total opposite of her in many ways. Where she has been brought up to exert control, to plan and to master her life, he is sort of a free soul. He doesn’t want to worry about tomorrow; rather, he just drifts freely, taking things as they come.
IRRATIONAL THINGS
Järjettömiä asioita
Tammi, March 2021, 270pp
RIGHTS SOLD:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat
LITHUANIA: BALTO
