Diorama

Everything exists first in our imagination. How do you explain love to someone who has never experienced it? An intelligent contemporary novel about dreams and memories—about possible worlds.

✓ Finlandia Prize Nominated Author, Long listed for the Runeberg Prize

✓ Lyrical, atmospheric, and psychologically sharp

✓ For the readers of Siri Hustvedt, Han Kang, Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson

Julia and Karl meet at the Biological Museum. Seventeen years later, Julia, now a researcher, retreats to a snowbound hotel to recall the feverish days they spent together. She wants to remember everything, to piece together a lost love fragment by fragment. At the same time, she has another goal—one that, if fulfilled, could change the world and the way we see it.

Anna-Kaari Hakkarainen’s fourth novel is a hauntingly beautiful and brutal portrayal of humanity, the mind, and the madness of love.