An outstanding, if bleak and brutal, novel describing one starving family's journey through the snow during the Finnish famine in 1867. It's a harrowing account but once started it has to be finished to know whether there's any light at all at the end of the tunnel. During their journey they, and therefore the reader, meet other people and families trying to survive the famine and harsh weather conditions in their own ways. A grim read, but well worth it.
