• More Very Finnish Problems paperback by Joel Willans standing on a windowsill with three more copies stacked beside it, snowy birch trees outside
  • Front cover of More Very Finnish Problems by Joel Willans, the paperback lying on a wooden kitchen table
  • Back cover of More Very Finnish Problems by Joel Willans with the blurb and the list of Finnish problems, lying on a wooden table
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More Very Finnish Problems Softback

More Very Finnish Problems Softback

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More Finnish problems

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Finland did not stop being baffling after the first book. More Very Finnish Problems is the sequel to 101 Very Finnish Problems and this is the new edition: the original problems, plus 29 new ones written after many more years of living in Finland and still not fully understanding it.

The new problems are the ones you only learn by staying. The day every Finn's income is published in November and the whole country spends 24 hours being furious. The neighbour who complains about noise at one minute past ten. The housing company meeting that turns into a two hour argument about a hedge. The laundry room you have to book three weeks in advance. The flat that came with its own sauna, which you have used twice. And the April morning it reaches nine degrees and every terrace in the country is suddenly full.

101 problems in all, illustrated throughout, each a short, sharp essay, arranged by theme: rules, winter, silence, homes, sauna, language, alcohol, the cottage, Sweden (and now Estonia) and, inevitably, sisu, which turns out to mean nobody goes to the doctor. Affectionate, dry and accurate in the way only two decades of bemused observation can produce.

If you live in Finland, are moving to Finland, have married into a family that treats silence as a full conversation or read the first book and wondered what happened next, this is the one.

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About Very Finnish Problems

VFP was started by British author Joel Willans, who met his Finnish wife in London and moved with her to Helsinki in 2002. Over the next two decades his observations of Finnish life grew into a community of 1.3 million people worldwide. Every design is inspired by real Finnish life and created by Joel and his team in Helsinki. Joel is also the author of the Very Finnish Problems books, written after many years of living in Finland and still not fully understanding it.

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More Finnish problems

What people buy alongside this one.
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GavanD

Bought this in second hand book shop while in Helsinki, fun read which explained a lot about what i saw. Short, funny entries you can dip in and out of and the bit about sauna etiquette alone was worth the money. Read it before you visit, will definitely make you laugh and help realise what is going on and why.

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Roy Van

Pretty funny. I'll use the word kalsarikännit a lot.

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MusTii Fa

This is the second book after 101 very Finnish problems. Want to know a thing or more about Finland, go now and grab copies of the two books. I learned a lot about the land, the people, their habits and costumes, the food, and much more. Everything told with humor and wit. Very good!

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Saana R

Loved the first Very Finnish Problems book and loved this next one as well! Maybe even more. same fun way of writing but often goes into much more detail with problems. I also liked the addition of cartoons. I learnt lots of didn't know and very often with a big smile on my face.

Joel Willans, founder of Very Finnish Problems

Designed in Helsinki by someone who actually lives here

Very Finnish Problems is run by Joel Willans, a British writer who moved to Finland over twenty years ago and never quite got around to leaving. Every design comes out of real Finnish life he's had with his Finnish wife, Anna and their kids, and a community of more than 1.3 million people who know exactly what no niin means.

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