In her new novel Who Killed Bambi? Monika Fagerholm masterfully describes the horrors of the Finnish idyll. Your neighbors don’t appreciate that so much.
When the brother of the taxi driver’s wife, who picks you up because of an engine failure in the birch forest outside Svedjekulla, lives with Hilding’s youngest sister, the Hilding who is married to Monika Fagerholm, then you realize that in the big, wide landscape of Uusimaa, everyone is together related by marriage and tipsy, and everyone knows Fagerholm. In Scandinavia she is one of the most important contemporary authors, in Finland she is a literary star and here, in the southwestern part of the country, where the Finnish Swedes live, she is considered a living legend.