Kesäyö [Finnish]

By Väinö Kataja

The light of a northern summer night becomes both subject and challenge when Martti Kavanto returns to the landscape of his childhood. After years of artistic work abroad, the young painter finds his attachment to home renewed by the spring scenery, the wilderness and the changing light he longs to capture. Yet the ideal beauty he perceives in nature resists easy representation, turning the familiar country into a demanding test of vision, memory and vocation. Love complicates this homecoming. Martti's growing feelings for Anna stand against an earlier engagement, while differences of social position deepen the conflict between desire and obligation. His search for artistic truth is therefore inseparable from questions of identity, faith and belonging. The remote northern world is not merely a backdrop: its ridges, river and lake shape the novel's reflections on how a person may return to a place without simply returning to the past. Art and nature meet most powerfully at Haltiain kivi, a childhood landmark that becomes a site of emotional and artistic revelation. Through Martti's struggle to translate summer-night light into paint, this literary novel examines the distance between lived beauty and the image an artist can create. Home, love and landscape exert competing claims, each asking what must be remembered, honoured or relinquished. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Finnish
• ISBN: 9377784581
• ISBN13: 9789377784584
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"