The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles – Roy Jacobsen

My town was set ablaze on 7 December, after all four thousand inhabitants had been evacuated, except for me. I was born here, had live here all my life and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else … There is always one, at least one, who doesn’t follow the crowd, he doesn’t even need to know why, and here in Suomussalmi it was me.