TANGLED ROOTS by Maria Turtschaninoff published in English!

We are excited to let you know that the English edition of Maria Turtschaninoff‘s award-winning novel Tangled Roots (aka Inherited Land), translated by Annie Prime, has been published by Pushkin Press!

Maria Turtschaninoff’s epic intergenerational novel tells multiple enchanting stories about short human lives on a small farmstead in the north of Finland with its golden cloudberries and mythical forest creatures. 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 in the woods they find shelter and a place to be themselves.

Tangled Roots has received numerous accolades. It has won four literary prizes in Finland (the Svenska Yle Literature Prize of 2022, the Thank You for the Book Award of 2022, the Young Aleksis Award of 2023, and the Eeva Joenpelto Literary Prize of 2024), the Czech edition is currently nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award of 2025, and the Dutch edition was nominated for the Europese Literatuurprijs of 2024!

International praise for Tangled Roots:

“Maria Turtschaninoff, an outstanding storyteller, creates a wonderful lyrical novel following several generations from the Middle Ages to the present day. [—] You just have to taste this touching fresh breath of air.”
– Thierry Boillot, L’Alsace, France

“You have to read this book. It’s early in the year, but Tangled Roots could be the best book I am reviewing this year. [—] I am not giving 6 [stars out of 6] often, a 6 should have something timeless in it, it should be worth reading for generations after us. It’s hard to find a book more timeless than Tangled Roots.”
– Steinar Brandsled, Stavanger Aftenblad newspaper, Norway (6/6 stars)

“Maria Turtschaninoff demonstrates the skill of both a fantasy author and an expert in the field of human ecology. For her, the interconnectedness between the human and natural worlds is not an obligatory ride, a romantic lightening of difficult stories or satisfaction with the current trend, but a natural way to present human destinies in their complexity.”
– Lubomir Jaško, medziknihami.sk, Slovakia

“The novel Tangled Roots is a successful attempt to bring people and land back into contact with each other. Without lapsing into nature nostalgia, the story creates a movingly honest and earthy image that will stay with you for a long time.”
– Leendert Torn, Nederlands Dagblad newspaper, Netherlands

Tangled Roots has been sold to 23 territories!
Rights are available in, e.g., Japan, Slovakia, Latvia, Greece, Korea, Lithuania, Spain…

Download materials for TANGLED ROOTS here!

Tangled Roots (aka Inherited Land)

Maria Turtschaninoff

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

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 wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, 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: a young girl entranced by the forest folk, a faithless fiancé who meets his match beneath the age-old branches, a farmhand with a strange obsession…

What endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us too.