Vieras veri: Rakkausnovelleja

A collection of love novellas that dwell on alienation and longing in a cold, war‑scarred community. One central tale follows a foreign‑born young wife of a civic leader who, while preparing offerings and linens for a leprosarium at her husband's insistence, becomes consumed by revulsion toward the sick, fear of contagion, and homesickness for imagined sunny landscapes. The stories contrast domestic and public duties, religious disputes and warfare with small, private pleasures — roses, dragonflies, a child's innocence — and examine how fear, duty, and suppressed tenderness shape relationships and produce moral unease.