Talisman

Serving as a sequel to 2016's Ice Road, Talisman is the second addition in the "Oulunsalo Fiction" trilogy. Ice Road's Samuli and Tapani are back for another nightless summer in the north. They've been upgraded from deliverymen to bosses through old bossman, and new grandpa Rene, whose heir gave birth to that of Samuli during a year already grand in terms of life-development. Joining the story is the 17-year-old Viktor, whose endless walks around the neighborhood seem to make him but a regular piece of its scenery... and whose mask is taken off quick every time he steps foot at home. Stakes are at an expected but brand new height, as the upgraded bossmen bask in the victory of running the local drug-trade. As all this happens, the arms of shadow-clocks on the walls begin making unfamiliar tics, last year's disappearees are still nowhere to be found, people lose sight of themselves biting more than they can chew, and before eyes have the chance to be batted, everything's on a steady course downward.

About me: Hello, I'm Jani Ojala, a 20-year-old chef-to-be and a writer on my free time. Fiction and criticism/analysis on the fields of music have been other things I've enjoyed doing, besides fiction. I started writing at around ten-to-twelve years of age, back when I was in elementary school and was a shy awkward boy who didn't have no friends. It was fun then, and after that I got involved with a whole other crowd, sometime in middle school, when I was tired of being picked on for being fat and being a little socially awkward. Subdivisions of said crowd lead me to be involved in some stuff I'm not proud to admit today, but I feel like all of this has made me the man I am today and I wouldn't have it any other way. Talisman is my sixth novel, second one written in English and consequentially second part of the Oulunsalo Fiction trilogy. Earlier books include: Coleman-Tarinat (2014) [only available in some OUTI libraries] Coleman-Tarinat 2 (2014) [not available anymore] Artner-Enkelin Multinotaatti (2014) [not available anymore] Ylipurema (2015) Ice Road (2016) (Penned Sept. 16, 2017)