Published in 1990, ‘Isäksi ja tyttäreksi’ (‘As Father and Daughter’) is a novel by Finnish writer Olli Jalonen that won the ‘Finlandia Prize‘ in 1990. Jalonen is a Finnish author born in Helsinki (1954) and currently living in Hämeenlinna, Finland. The main character of Olli Jalonen’s novel ‘Isäksi ja tyttäreksi’, is a father and a 12-year-old daughter who wants to take care of his daughter at any cost. The daughter has grown up in a new family, where the mother and stepfather are successful model citizens. In the book he travels through 1980s Europe and finally settle in violent Northern Ireland. Jouko-Johan has previously studied minority peoples in the border region of Iraq and Iran. The book comments on raising children and reflects on loneliness and the possibilities of connections between people. Can a father protect his child from all the evil in the world?
