We present to your attention the novel by the well-known and beloved Norwegian writer Erlend Lu, “The Best Country in the World, or Facts about Finland.”

His hero is a young journalist working as a freelancer. Having received an unexpected order to write a fascinating guide to Finland, he is not embarrassed by the fact that he knows nothing about this country - after all, he can find a twenty-year-old National Geographic and listen to Sibelius. But the pangs of creativity are nothing compared to the surprises invading his life, a mysterious stranger, a kayak raid into the lair of “skinheads” and an all-purifying fire...

“With his new novel, Lou again confirms that he is in the vanguard of modern prose" (Lars Janssen);

"After reading "The Best Country in the World" you will never again be able to look at advertising and tourism brochures with the same indifference" (Franz Aufhimmel);

" This is the most worthy, intelligent, humane novel that Norwegian literature could greet the new millennium with.” (Observer Norske Argus).