Author: Tuomainen, Antti
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 23 October 2025 by Orenda Books in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 276 pages
204 x 125 |
A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.
Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go “ and no money “ he's desperate.
A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty steering wheel, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada.
That's when Ilmari realises that he is transporting something truly special. And when he realises he might be in serious trouble¦