Secret scars of the Second World War challenge the grand old narrative
Mar 07, 2022
3 minutes
Petra Rautiainen
Illustrated by Giovanni Simoncelli
One would think that there were no new stories to tell about the Second World War. That everything has been discussed already. Well, that doesn’t seem to be true to me. My novel Land of Snow & Ashes is all about revealing secrets and untold stories from that time.
When I first had the idea of writing a novel, I wanted to write about Sámiland, because I was haunted by its beauty: the dark nights during the
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