The Last Fish Fairy will take readers on a journey through time and space, where human and natural fate intertwined in endless pages of history.
The book takes us from the portrait of Steller sea cows to open up a journey of overwhelming adventure throughout 3 centuries, recounting the impacts of humans on the natural world, depicting great human dreams: About science, art and the desire to revive what humanity has destroyed.
The story began at the milestone of 1741 when Georg Wilhelm Steller - a German naturalist, made a North Pacific exploration with captain Vitus Bering with the goal of finding a sea route from Asia to the Americas.
Although they have not yet touched a new continent, they have made another surprise discovery: the Steller Sea Crab, a giant star apple animal the fishing fairy in legend. To date, Steller remains the only person to have detailed records of this animal when they were alive.
cleverly incorporating meticulous scientific details from animal anthology to geological and environmental concepts into a humane plot of stories, The Last Fish Fairy by Iida Turpeinen carries the sound of a tragic symphony of loss and changes in human awareness of the natural world.
The work made a strong impression with the interweaving of scientific and literary elements, creating a tense, contemplative atmosphere throughout the work.
The Last Fish Fairy is considered a work imbued with humanity, evoking emotions, forcing readers to face big questions about human responsibility towards the natural world and the heritages we leave behind.
Under the pen of author Iida Turpeinen, history is not only about great events but also a summary of personal stories, lives that have contributed to shaping our world.
With The Last Fish Fairy, writer Iida Turpeinen was honored to receive the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Award for Best First Work and was nominated for the Finland Award the biggest literary award in Finland and the Torch-Bearer Award an award to honor outstanding Finnish literary works of the year with promising success in the world.
On the occasion of the launch of the book "The Last Fish Fairy" and welcoming the Finnish Literature Week, Kim Dong Publishing House in collaboration with the Finnish Embassy in Vietnam and The Initiative of Children's Book Creative content (ICBC) organized an exchange at 2:30 p.m. on July 19 in Hanoi.
The event was attended by two translators Vo Xuan Que and Bui Viet Hoa, who translated the work from Finnish to Vietnamese; writer Di Li and Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Nam - Deputy Head of the Faculty of Biology, Director of the Museum of Biology, University of Natural Sciences - Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
At the exchange, readers will join experts in sharing and listening to the painful history of Steller sea cows, about conflicts in the relationship between humans and nature, about the story behind the extinction event of an animal; at the same time, analyzing how the author combines scientific data, historical data and uses storytelling art in literature - an effective form of scientific dissemination.
