The Healer

Copyright

THE HEALER. Copyright © 2010 by Antti Tuomainen.

Translation Copyright © 2013 by Lola Rogers.

All rights reserved.

For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

Originally published in Finland in 2010 under the title Parantaja by Helsinki-Kirirat, Helsinki.

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Jacket photographs: Man/foreground © Nikki Smith/Arcangel Images, buildings © Nikki Smith/Arcangel Images, cloud of smoke © James Orndorf/Arcangel Images

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Tuomainen, Antti.

[Parantaja. English]

The healer/Antti Tuomainen ; translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8050-9554-8

1. Disasters—Finland—Fiction. 2. Missing persons—Fiction. 3. Poets, Finnish—Fiction. 4. Helsinki (Finland)—Fiction. I. Rogers, Lola. II. Title.

PH356.T85P3713 2013

894’.54134—dc23 2012027372

e-ISBN 978-0-8050-9555-5

First U.S. Edition: May 2013