N E D U T
When the past did not stay in the past
J. Pekka Mäkelä's third novel blends science fiction and magic realism. Published September 2007.
"Nedut is J. Pekka Mäkelä's third and the best novel... story that feels big while being told intimately, music at its heart."
-- Jussi Ahlroth, Helsingin Sanomat
"J. Pekka Mäkelä has written his finest novel, a seamless and coherent work where every single piece fits.
There's nothing unnecessary, no unneeded frills or pointless scenes, not a single idle word. Nedut is a SF story that doubles as a love story, a growth story and a topical novel opening up to several directions: high quality literature
inside the mixed and uneven genre of Science Fiction."
-- Harri Erkki, Portti
These days, former rock legend Jolle Peltola tries hard not to lose his low paying day job, even if he does not like it one bit. He sees no alternative. Even shitty jobs are hard to come by, with all the Central European refugees moving in Finland.The Neanderthal people were thought to perished over 20,000 years ago. Well, they didn't. Now they're back and they want their old stomping grounds, and African latecomers called Homo sapiens are banished. No use fighting back - the older, real Europeans seem to have acquired enough firepower from... whom? Other spacefaring people? No one seems to know.
Jolle Peltola doesn't even care - he has problems of his own. But soon he realises he has to care - about his life, his music and his friends. He has to face the Neanderthals, the past and the future in a way he couldn't even have imagined.
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