Sometimes it is a trickle, then a soft howl that echoes across the mighty glacier. Its song tells Unni where the ever-increasing meltwater is finding its way into the centre of the ice. Research has brought the glaciologist back to Canada, but there is another reason: Jon, with the dark eyes and lost look, whom she came close to on her last visit to Baffin Island before they parted ways again. Jon, who had travelled here to fill the gaps in his biography. Unni's search for Jon also leads her to her own past, to the magical summers she spent with her Sami father in Lapland and the bitter everyday life in a village near Helsinki. And finally to a young woman who listened to the glacier thirty years earlier and foresaw a dark future for the child in her womb.

Inkeri Markkula has lived in Lapland, Iceland and Spitsbergen. The author and environmental scientist conducts research at the University of Lapland on the cultural and ecological consequences of climate change in (sub-)Arctic regions, particularly for indigenous communities. Her debut novel Two People per Minute was published in 2016 and was nominated for the literary prize of Helsingin Sanomat, the most widely circulated and influential daily newspaper in Finland, in the category "Best Debut Novel". Her novel Where the Ice Never Melts was translated into German by Stefan Moster.

Artist: Inkeri Markkula
Free entry
Saturday, 09 May 2026
18:00 hrs
Koeppen House

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