A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is enlivened by characters from his stories, who tend to enter reality in unexpected ways, at various stages of completeness and with all kinds of strange demands.

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern Un...

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together...

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can succ...

Jaakkola, a priest with a bad memory, gets a prescription for a spa day from Dr. Viljo. Ruustinna pl...

Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the mo...

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in ...

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical f...

Second Lieutenant Romppainen and Sergeant Ryhmä are tasked with blowing up the enemy's ammunition de...

Lieutenant General T.J.A. Heikkilä travels to the Republic of Sierranueva together with his military...

Ulla Järvinen gets a telegram about the death of her aunt and that she has inherited a manor, but th...

Väinö Kehkonen, the head of a Helsinki-based construction company, takes his wife and the Ärmälä cou...

Pekka Lipponen is trying to trace hidden diamonds before a group of bandits finds them. He enlists h...

Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected c...

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town beg...

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abando...

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everythin...

The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on boa...

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is ...