by Arto Paasilinna · Lübbe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783404920549
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«Die Giftköchin» is the black-humor novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Lübbe in paperback (211 pages, in German).
Linnea Ravaska, an elderly Finnish woman fed up with being manipulated by her shady nephew, decides to stand up to him with a plan based on her knowledge of poisons. The plot combines crime, comedy and black humor, with unexpected twists and a domestic revenge that turns into a macabre, mocking game.
The translation from Finnish is by Regine Pirschel; the original title, Suloinen myrkynkeittäjä, appeared in 1988.
For readers who enjoy black humor and atypical crime fiction, with unconventional older characters and a Nordic setting.
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
