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Little Siberia
Little Siberia | Antti Tuomainen
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A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel. But Joel has a lot more on his mind than simply protecting the riches that have apparently rained down from heaven. His wife has just revealed that she is pregnant. Unfortunately Joel has strong reason to think the baby isn't his. As Joel tries to fend off repeated and bungled attempts to steal the meteorite, he must also come to terms with his own situation, and discover who the father of the baby really is. Transporting the reader to the culture, landscape and mores of northern Finland, Little Siberia is both a crime novel and a hilarious, blacker-than-black comedy about faith and disbelief, love and death, and what to do when bolts from the blue--both literal and figurative--turn your life upside down.
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Set in rural Finland, this darkly comic novel follows the fallout after a highly valuable meteorite crashes to Earth. Joel, a veteran and pastor, sets himself the task of guarding the meteorite during the night shift at the War Museum. After a break in, he begins to view everyone around him with suspicion, and as his personal life takes a turn for the worse, he becomes embroiled in a plan to thwart the theft. Good stuff.

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Little Siberia | Antti Tuomainen
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#TBRPile Day 9 - how could I resist a book written by Scandinavia‘s answer to Carl Hiaasen?? 📚 The arrival of a meteorite in a small town in northern Finland causes chaos. A priest named Joel is set to guard the unexpected treasure but he has more on his mind than fending off determined burglars. His wife is pregnant, and he‘s fairly sure the baby isn‘t his...