Saara Henriksson: September Gods

Welcome to a Budapest where immortal characters known as the September Gods meet on an island in the middle of the Danube!

Paul is an American scholar living in Budapest and teaching in a university as a guest lecturer. There is something peculiar about the city: the number of floors in his building keep changing, and the street signs get switched overnight.

In his building Paul get's to know Mr. Gábor, an old man upstairs who has witnessed the uprising fifty years earlier. He introduces Paul to a strange company that calls itself the September Gods. This band of bohemians gathers monthly on an island in the middle of the Danube river.

Through the eyes of the September Gods Paul gets to know a magical city where forgotten histories align with new ones and create new paths. As the world begins to crumble, everything that is familiar to Paul is in danger to get lost. Paul finds himself in a position where he has to find the right answers from within.

September Gods is a novel about the beauty and horror of history, about memory and identity in a world where history is written every day a little bit differently.

Published in August 2017

300 pages

KEYWORDS: ALTERNATIVE HISTORY, MAGICAL REALISM, FANTASTIC LITERATURE, WAR, UPRISING, ART, HISTORY, BUDAPEST, EUROPE
READING MATERIAL: ENGLISH SAMPLE AND SYNOPSIS, FINNISH EDITION

About the Author

Saara Henriksson (b. 1981) is an author, editor, and creative writing tutor living in Tampere, Finland. She has published three novels, a number of short stories in magazines and anthologies and a non-fiction book. Her fiction is best described as literary fiction with fantastical elements.

"September Gods builds into a dissection of the essence of the city itself." Helsingin Sanomat/ Jukka Koskelainen 24.4.2018

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Shortlisted for Kuvastaja – Best Finnish Fantasy Novel Award 2018!