Tangled Roots by Maria Turtschaninoff

'A winding and wonderful epic story about the earth we inherit' Västerbottens-Kuriren

'An unrivalled storyteller' L'Alsace

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen...

Like dragonflies darting over the marsh, their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone. But through war, famine and heartbreak, what endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us too.

Format:Paperback / softback 416 pages
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Imprint:Pushkin Press
ISBN:9781805330158
Published:7 May 2026
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Sagas, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation
Weight:304g
Dimensions:129 x 197 x 25 (mm)