Nine Dreams (Yhdeksän unelmaa)

A razor-sharp work of autofiction from Finland’s much-loved comic novelist Arto Paasilinna.

In a work of autofiction, Paasilinna lets readers into a little-known secret: his passion for construction.

Paasilinna was 10 years old when he took on his first construction project: a cabin in the woods. He went on to construct 53 buildings, including farmhouses, cottages, sheds, and saunas. Through a narrative of his various building projects, Paasilinna takes the reader on a journey of where his most famous novels were written.

Title: Nine Dreams (Yhdeksän unelmaa)
Published: 2002