Set in an isolated abbey, this timeless Finnish fantasy weaves a hypnotic spell
“‘I am no storyteller,” claims Maresi, this book’s narrator. “I will do my best only to describe what is relevant to my story and leave out everything else.”
She makes these claims on the first page, but they are disproved on every subsequent one. For Maresi, along with the book’s Finnish author Maria Turtschaninoff, proves to be a riveting storyteller. And it’s through details that many might dismiss as incidental that Turtschaninoff builds Maresi’s narrative.
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