The immigration to the Soviet Union has been studied and talked about more only relatively recently – Kettu’s book was probably spearheading the fictionalization of the phenomenon. Not everyone moved to Sweden or North America, there were many who went to the east. Her destiny was shared by many Finns who decided to search for a better life. She is condemned to a life in a prison camp in the Komi Republic, far away in the north. She falls in love with a Soviet man and decides to defect across the border – in the winter and on skis! What happens is that instead of living a life in a Communist paradise, Irga gets interrogated as a possible double agent trying to undermine the Soviet government. The story concerns a young girl living in the northern Finnish border zone towards the Soviet Union in 1937, Irga Malinen. Her books have also been translated into many languages – this one at least to Swedish, Danish, Estonian, German, Hungarian, and French. Kettu is another well-respected Finnish author with a number of prestigious literary awards. A captivating premise to be sure – but what did our resident book critic Eppu have to say? Read on to find out!īook number five from the FinnCultBlx Bookshelf is from Katja Kettu’s 2015 novel Yöperhonen (‘moth’). The novel is set in the year 1937, when a young Finnish girl sets out to defect to the Soviet Union to be with her lover. This month, the #FinnCultBlxBookshelf series features Katja Kettu’s Yöperhonen (2015).
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