Midwinter Fire

By Olli Jalonen

A beautiful and severe story of love and art. The time has come to pull down the pyramids of the New Age, the megalomaniacal project of the conceptual artist Light – and at the same time sever the relationship between him and the architect Silla. On a trip to Iceland, it comes out that Light has cancer. When Silla begins to arrange treatment, she discovers that Light has kept the most important secret from her. ”’The biggest connection between people is warmth and fire; there is a boundary of heat that separates the living from the dead,’ Light had said at the river. I had made a note of it, because Light rarely spoke about things that went beyond mundane concerns.”  Midwinter Fire continues the story of Nine Pyramids (2000).

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About the author

Olli Jalonen (b. 1954) is one of Finland’s most respected authors. Since 1978, he has written over 15 works of fiction, some non-fiction and a children’s fantasy novel. Jalonen has received several important literary prizes, including the Finlandia Prize, and he has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize three times. Jalonen has lived in Finland, Sweden and Ireland, working as a reporter, information officer and researcher. His extensive oeuvre also includes radio plays and scripts for screen and stage.“Jalonen is a master at building open places into a text. His stories breathe, and each page contains an expectation, of good or evil.”– Kouvolan Sanomat