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After losing her boyfriend and partner in crime, Rust, during a tragic run-in with security, Metro moves to Berlin to start over. She finds a home in a grimy squat where she befriends other graffiti artists, and together they carry out aggressive attacks, bombing entire trains and buildings with fresh paint and achieving international notoriety by posting their hits online. Adorning the attic of their squat is a wall-size piece by world-famous tagger Banksy depicting a silhouetted rat spraying a wall. It’s a hidden treasure amid the squalor. But when Metro comes home one day to find bodies—including one familiar face from her past—scattered around the building and the amazing mural missing entirely, she and her friends are forced into action. The piece turns up at auction for millions of dollars, and Metro must follow it to its new home in Kotka, Finland, a town she thought she had left behind for good. Up against the law and on the run from her personal demons, Metro has no choice but to seek justice with the only means she has: graffiti.
Author
ENG: Jari Järvelä has written novels, short stories, essays, radio plays and plays. He currently resides at Kotka, living between the ocean and a river, likes both cities on harbours and train stations. His favourite cities are Napoli and Marseille, in both of which nothing is working yet everything works out, everybody believes in miracles and not for nothing. His hobbies include swimming, wines and history (even the one that can be found on a roadside or on rusty tin cans on an old fridge on an attic). Most of all, Järvelä is into punk music and paintings from 1500's renaissance, both of which most of his friends dislike strongly. Both of them include that frenzied indulging which makes art something more than life, or at least more sensible. FIN: Jari Järvelä on syntynyt Helsingissä 21. marraskuuta 1966. Hän on kirjoittanut romaaneja, novellikokoelmia, esseitä, kuunnelmia ja näytelmiä. Hän asuu Kotkassa meren ja joen välissä, pitää sekä satamakaupungeista että juna-asemista. Hänen mielikaupunkinsa ovat Napoli ja Marseille, niissä ei mikään toimi mutta kaikki järjestyy, ja jokainen uskoo syystä ihmeisiin. Hän harrastaa uintia, viinejä, myös valtateiden ulkopuolista historiaa, sitä joka löytyy vesakkoisilta pientareilta ja vintiltä vanhasta nestekidejääkaapista, sen sisältämistä ruosteensyömistä säilykepurkeista. Erityisen nitkahtanut Järvelä on punkmusiikkiin ja 1400-luvun renessanssitauluihin, hänen useimmat ystävänsä saavat molemmista nokkosihottumaa. Molemmissa on sitä vimmaista heittäytymistä, joka tekee taiteesta elämää suurempaa, tai ainakin herkempää.
