The Otherling and Other Stories

Translated by Liisa Rantalaiho.

This short story collection features several award-winning stories from a Finnish author. They span strange and exciting worlds of imagination: in them an alien whose sole purpose is to serve others tries to understand humankind, an itinerant woman carries the world’s history in her tattoos, an old artisan is doing his skilled part to help revolution, a little boy discovers the secret of books, and a woman suffering from memory crashes follows a cat who both is and is not there...

Included stories:

• White threads
• The Skinner
• The Otherling
• Oliver´s Book
• The Mastersmith