Pirkko Saisio began working on her autobiography, The Helsinki Trilogy, in 1998. The first volume, The Lowest Common Denominator, has just been translated into French.
Little Pirkko is a lonely child, she has no brothers or sisters, and lives with loving parents, tender grandparents and a multitude of uncles and aunts with tumultuous lives. The memories, then, emerge, precise: the smells of brioche and currants, she inhales them again, the swallows announcing the end of summer, she can glimpse them. She still feels it, this strange feeling of not being who she hoped for.