As the chill settles over Washington, we’re turning up the hygge with two Scandinavian novels set at sea, from the fjords of Norway to imperial-era Helsinki. Beasts of the Sea: A Novel Iida Turpeinen, trans. David Hackston (Little, Brown and Company, 288 pp., $28, November 2025) The book cover for Beast os the Sa by Iida Turpeinen Iida Turpeinen’s debut novel, Beasts of the Sea , has already secured its spot in the canon of great climate literature . First published in Finland in 2023, the book