Linguistic thriller with a touch of northern noir

This is a novel about the sole surviving speaker of an ancient Siberian language who is discovered by a Russian expert on Samoyedic dialects who makes the fatal mistake of telling a Helsinki-based professor of Finno-Ugric languages about it.

To complicate linguistic matters further, The Last of the Vostyachs was written 11 years ago in yet another language, Italian, before being translated, last year, into English.

The wild man in question is Ivan, a Vostyach of the Tajmyr Peninsula in northern Siberia and a former gulag inmate, whose language causes all nature to quake and makes men want to pray.
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A kind of philological Holy Grail for academics seeking a Siberian connection between the ancient languages of the Baltic and those of North America, Ivan’s lateral fricative with labiovelar overlay, “the mysterious semi-consonant of the American Indians”, attracts the attention of the Russian philologist Olga when he stumbles into the remote village where she is conducting her research.

The professor to whom Olga confides about Ivan is Jarmo Aurtova, the villain of the piece, whose theories of Finnish ethno-linguistic superiority are upended by the discovery and who therefore decides to ensure it never becomes public knowledge.

Read the full review in The Weekend Australian.