Roy Jacobsen, the Norwegian writer of the 4 Ingrid chronicles set on an island in the North Sea, published The Burnt-out Town Of Miracles, in 2005. Actually the title in the original Norwegian was The Logger. That's a much better title than the English Burnt-out. It's one of his earlier books.
The story is set in Finland during the Russian-Finish war in 1939. The Finish town is near the border and it's torched as the Russian invaders approach. The logger, Tino, is the only person that refuses evacuation before the Russian troops arrive. He's considered the village idiot but, as his actions prove during the occupation, he's not stupid.
It's his non-anxious, self definition that makes both his fellow Finns and the occupying Russians think that he is an idiot. He's logger by trade and he continues logging during and after the occupation. He marches to his own drum and that befuddles others.
When our history book club was meeting we read a history of that war. In Burnt-out aspects of that event are reported. The book engaged me so that I quickly finished it. I suggest reading it and then read Winter War.
Takk for alt,
Al
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