The Hunt for Little Pike is both a touching love story and an intricate fantasy. A novel immersing itself in the original folklore of Lapland and modern Finnish life. Every year Elina Ylijaakko returns to her home village in Eastern Lapland to catch pike in a small forest lake. After all, this fish keeps a secret on which Elina’s life depends. But this time, a merman intervenes in the pike hunt, and soon other people and ancient creatures join the confrontation: peat beeches, wobbles, blackheads, stripers, corgorushes, and cluckers. Fishing turns into a desperate adventure. This is a parable novel, a fairy tale novel about great love, accidental betrayal, overcoming and forgiving oneself. Filled with accurate descriptions of northern nature, the novel takes the reader to some kind of prehistoric world, where myth is indistinguishable from reality, and man and nature are one.