Popular music from Vittula
(Book)

Matti and his quiet friend Niila grow up in Vittula, a little town with lots of children, in the far north of Sweden. This is the '60s and '70s, the dirt roads are finally being paved, the small farmsteads are being abandoned, and rock music enters the scene with a crash. Against a backdrop of an older generation suspicious of these modern things, is a young boy's world, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles.