Wild dog. Yuntti P.

“Wild Dog” - the debut novel of the Finnish writer Pekka Yuntti about the search for a young man of his true purpose. The nineteen -year -old itself contrary to the desire of his father leaves the mining village and gets up to work in the Husky nursery in Northern Finland. Thus begins his growing up - the difficult path lying between the “mine”, with its lack of freedom, social conventions and the hopelessness of the dead stereotypes, and the “Kayra” - the world of untouched northern forests, the embodiment of lost paradise, the focus of all the present, the core of life itself.

Discovering the power of pristine nature and realizing his own inappropriate to it, getting acquainted with the domestic structure of Finnish villages, as if frozen in the past, and involuntarily touching the secret history of one local family, the main character in the face of death makes a choice in The benefit of love and adoption of life. The same way - from a half -wild working dog, almost a wolf, towards a person who is selflessly devoted and believed in a dream - is Nannok, one of the dogs from the Husky nursery in Kayra.

distinguished by a pronounced epic beginning, humanism and humility before the power of nature, the novel by Pekki Yuntty is perceived as the hymn to the most valuable that is in human life - freedom of personal choice.