← Frans Eemil SillanpaaMeek Heritageby Frans Eemil SillanpaaNovel depicting the quiet dignity and resilience of poor Finnish rural peasant familiesFind on Amazon↗About the authorFrans Eemil SillanpaaFinnish author and Nobel laureate whose lyrical fiction captured the lives of Finnish peasants and their relationship to the natural world. Meek Heritage and The Maid Silja are his finest works.More by Frans Eemil SillanpaaThe Maid Silja→People in the Summer NightImpressionistic novel capturing a single summer night in Finnish countryside with multiple voices→Fallen Asleep While Young→The Way of a Man→
