Hanna Pylväinen is the author of "The End of Drum-Time", a 2023 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction and Finlandia Foundation's Lecturer of the Year for 2024. This story is set in the 1851 world of Sámi reindeer herders, religion, beliefs, faith and love.

Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author says, “Hanna Pylväinen’s novel of cultural collision in the far north is an extraordinary feat of research and imagination…”

Presented By: Finger Lakes Finns. This program was made possible in part by grants from the Tompkins County Tourism Program and Finlandia Foundation National. Thanks also to the Newfield Public Library for their assistance.