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Title: The Midwife

Author: Katja Kettu, David Hackston - translator

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Orphaned into an unforgiving foster home and raised as an outsider, Weird-Eye shoulders her unflattering nickname. She relies on her vivid imagination to sustain her work as a midwife bringing newborns into the world while World War II overruns her native Finland, desecrating life. She finds herself drawn to the handsome, otherworldly Johannes Angelhurst, a war photographer working for the SS. To be near him, Weird-Eye - whom Johannes lovingly calls Wild-Eye - volunteers to serve as a nurse at the prison camp where he has been assigned.

From the brutality of the camps to the splendor of the aurora borealis above the Arctic Sea, The Midwife tells of a stormy romance, the desolate beauty of a protective fjord, and the deeply personal battles waged as World War II came to an end.

Members Reviews:

the lives of a young Finnish girl and a Nazi officer intersect as this beautiful yet brutal story unfolds

This book is a challenging read, but well worth the time and effort.

In Nazi-occupied Finland during the Lapland War and the final years of WWII, 1944-45, the lives of a young Finnish girl and a Nazi officer intersect as this beautiful yet brutal story unfolds.

The Midwife is an outsider in her Finnish village, named Weird-Eye by the villagers who belittle and look down on her while at the same time benefitting from her skills as a midwife and healer. Johannes Angelhurst is a Nazi officer who is assigned to Weird-Eyeâs village as a journalist and photographer tasked with watching the villagers in order to report any spying and resistance activities taking place around him.

Johannes is re-assigned to the Titkova Nazi prison camp. Weird-Eye is given permission to go to the camp as a nurse/medical assistant in order to be with him. As the story unfolds, it comes to light what purpose the camp serves. Johannes is guilt-ridden about what he is ordered to do and seeks oblivion in a drug he has access to in the camp. Weird-Eye does her best to relieve the suffering around her, not knowing until late in the story what takes place in some of the forbidden areas of the camp. As the Naziâs withdraw from Finland destroying everything they leave behind, so many lives lay in ruin.

Kettuâs language is heartrending in the telling of this devastating story. At the same time, her beautiful poetic images of the arctic landscape make the cold splendor of the setting come to life.

The book has received critical acclaim and literary awards in the authorâs native Finland. Translation rights have recently been sold worldwide and is now available in English. I highly recommend this book even to those who have had their fill of WWII books. Kettu gives us a new look into WWII from the Finnish perspective of Nazi-occupied Finland.

-- Published in Historical Novels Review

Finland ar war

This is a story of people in Finland in WWII, under Nazi occupation, and weaves a tale of a midwife with a bad eye, who falls in love with a disturbed Nazi officer who has been assigned as a photographer, evidently because he didn't function well as a purveyer of atrocities . The account in the book is interesting, although the action is difficult to follow. This is an enjoyable if somewhat disturbing read.

Not for the faint of heart.

From the first few pages of this book (much of which I skipped) I was not sure I would even read it.