Rajalla – On the Border –

“… From Helsinki or Brussels, Suomussalmi may seem to be remote. From Moscow, Kalevala and Jyskyjärvi are remote. What is remote can be defined in many ways. The compilers of this book have been interested in knowing how children and young people in the border district experience their life. That is why the texts were supposed to tell about their relation to their home district. The reader can listen for the tone in which they write about their lives. Let the children’s and young people’s stories prove that people live, think, dream and dare in the outlying villages of Europe.”