Autobiographische Erzählungen / the house in Finland

With MS already narrowing her margins, she makes a decision she does not weigh for long: she leaves Zurich with her two cats and flies north, to an old house in Finland she has never seen.What follows is quiet and unsettling. Renovation and long, pale nights. Being seen without being held. Help that isn’t help, a former owner who returns as if nothing had changed, dogs, rats, and a fear that slowly moves toward near-paranoia. Until the decision to pack, take the road and cross the sea home.Told in clear, spare prose, «The House in Finland» is a story about distance, dependence and self-respect – and about the moment leaving becomes an act of care.