This book takes you beyond the sauna and beyond Sibelius, right into the heart of Suomi. The author, Roman Schatz, moved here from an abolished country called West-Germany thirty years ago and is now the whole country's darling and an inexhaustible expert on Finnish fun facts. The illustrations are provided by Finland's best-loved cartoonist Pertti Jarla.
Welcome to the land of almost 200.000 lakes, the home of rubber-boot-throwing championships, the promised land for single mothers, welcome to a language that doesn't have a word for please, welcome to the land of almost eternal light and darkness, welcome to the cradle of civilization, culture and sophisticated humor, welcome to Finland!