A chillingly perceptive story of the drug wave that spread during the Depression years and its veterans.

✓ 2024 Finlandia Prize nominee in Fiction!

✓ Sold 4,000 copies!

✓ “Trainspotting” meets “Requiem for a Dream”.

✓ Hanna-Riikka Kuisma has received both the Satakunta Arts Council’s Art Prize and the Nortamo Prize for Literature, and her previous novel HIGH-RISE was nominated the 2020 Finlandia Prize in Fiction.

A man’s life is shaken up when he hears news of his little sister, who disappeared decades ago. Will painful memories drag him back to the ruthless drug world of an industrial city, or will he manage to hold on to the new life he has worked so hard to build?

The novel, which takes place in two time frames, is an unstoppably realistic deep dive into the world of addiction, the shadows of our society and the stages of drug policy from the 1990s to the present day.

“TREATMENT is a very, very refreshing and meaningful read in today’s Finnish literary scene. (-) A novel like this reminds us of the importance literature can have when it offers a view into the unknown and increases our understanding of life.” – Savon Sanomat

“TREATMENT is, however, something that the main characters of Requiem for a Dream did not have access to, and the existence of treatment ultimately brings light and hope to a story that could have ended as a hopelessly dark life story and an untimely grave.” – Kirjavinkit.fi