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Jonas of Kiviijarvi

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I really enjoyed this book. It had lots of incredible action and romance. Jonas was a master of inventiveness and very aware of the subtle signs of the outdoors that many people completly miss out on. I notice much more when I am out in the woods now because of it. I would like to see it made into a movie!

I hoped for a lively fictional dramatization of a difficult time in which Finns endured hardship, then won freedom; which I could share with my children.

The premise that the stories were related GrandFather to GrandSon is good.

The multiple sex scenes take this book from their young hands.

When, after conflict lasting a year and a half, a Russian army of 85,000 finally defeated a force of 12,000 Finns, Finland became a Grand Duchy of Russia in 1808, and a rebel movement was born. Jonas Wisuri emigrated from Finland near the turn of the next century, after Finland had been under Russian rule for nearly a hundred years, bringing with him stories of the "Ghost", a Finnish freedom fighter. Leslie Wisuri has collected these stories in Jonas Of Kiivijarvi: Finnish Freedom Fighter into a book that reads like a finely crafted novel, but which Leslie believes were true stories from Jonas' own life and experiences.

The writing isn't great. The story IS interesting. But this isn't literature. To be appreciated mostly by the younger teens. True story or fiction? Doesn't matter. If you've read anything about the Finns you'll already know that they're a tough and resourceful people. In this book they're nearly psychic. The russians cop an awful beating though, at times made to look almost sub-human. It's cheap. Buy it. But not if you're a russian.

Interesting subcurrent is the obvious anti-russian sentiment. Considering the time this was written, maybe it was subconsciously also anti-soviet?

great read. it explains how it was for a finn during the russian rule of finland. the scary part is that it is a true story.

A great read! I really enjoyed the book. Great story line that made you keep reading. Interesting even if you know nothing about that time period.

.....about a Finnish freedom fighter living in the woods on the run from the Russian authorities. Every page keeps you on the edge of your seat as Jonas finds new and ingenious ways to outwit the Russian trackers to stay one step ahead of them, and a hero to his fellow Finns.