Chinese sale for INHERITED LAND – now 23 territories!

We’re thrilled to announce the Simplified Chinese rights for INHERITED LAND (Arvejord) by internationally bestselling and award-winning author Maria Turtschaninoff have been acquired by Rentian Ulus! Rentian Ulus are also publishers of e.g. Soseki Natsume, Amos Oz, Ninni Holmqvist, and Claire Lombardo. The deal was closed by Elsa Lindström at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency in association with the Grayhawk Agency.

This is the 23rd deal for the award-winning title – rights are still available in e.g. Spain, Japan, Lithuania, Korea, Greece, Latvia, Serbia…

Inherited Land

Maria Turtschaninoff

Inherited Land is an episodic work of literary fiction depicting human relationships with nature across generations, following in the tradition of family sagas like One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

The roots of man and forest are intertwined in the depths of the earth.

• Winner of the Svenska YLE Literature Prize 2022 and and Thank You for the Book Award 2023!

Inherited Land tells multiple enchanting stories about short human lives on a small farmstead in the north of Finland with its golden cloudberries and the mythical woodland animals. The hub of the narrative is a marsh close to the farmstead, and nature is the constant while humans are like dragonflies: here one day, gone the next. Across four centuries, the people face wars, epidemics, and heartbreaks, but from the woods they find shelter and a place to be themselves

Inherited Land is a novel about the climate crisis without ever mentioning it by name. Instead, the novel explores what people have thought about their environment, how they have used it and why. The novel is a reminder of where we have come from, and what a relationship between humans and nature could look like in the future.

The book is beautiful like a piece of jewelry and rich like a forest.
– Freja Rudels, Åbo Underrättelser newspaper