Arto Paasilinna

Herbert Lomas

A journalist and a photographer set out on an assignment, but as they drive along they hit a hare. The hare then adopts the journalist, and together the two scamper through farcical adventures and political scandal.

The Year of the Hare

Piccoli suicidi tra amici

The international bestseller. A novel of one man's existential journey away from his life and in to the wild. With a hare. Vatanen is a journalist in Finland. The car he is riding in accidentally hits a young wild hare. The injured animal scampers off and the car moves on—without Vatanen. He has disembarked to find the hare and nurse it back to health. With the hare in his arms, Vatanen starts walking. Travelling through forests and seasons, he finds himself on a journey of comic adventures and near misses. Embracing this life, Vatanen decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions and spend a year in the wild. As the hare slowly heals, so too does Vatanen. This is a picaresque tale of finding happiness where there was anger, simplicity where there was complexity, and meaning where there was none. It is a book in the wonderful tradition of Watership Down and Life of Pi. It is a story you will return to again and again. It is a story of a man and a wild hare.

Pico Iyer

After his car hits a bunny, which ultimately survives, a man decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions and spend a year wandering around the countryside of Finland--with the rabbit as his only companion. Original.

A Novel

L'anno della lepre

Seine Arbeit ödet ihn an, seine Ehe ist schon seit Jahren eine Qual ═ der Journalist Vatanen schleppt sich von einem Tag zum nächsten. Bis ihm auf der Heimfahrt von einem seiner üblichen langweiligen Pressetermine ein junger Hase vors Auto hoppelt ═ und Vatanens ehemals so hübsch geordnetes Leben zum Abenteuer wird. Ein wunderbar erzählter Roman in bester Paasilinna-Manier, todernst und urkomisch zugleich.

Roman

Das Jahr des Hasen

The hilarious new novel from one of Finland's most successful novelists Gunnar Huttunen arrives in North Finland after the war and buys a dilapidated mill. Despite being a decent and hard-working Finn, he is also an outsider and an eccentric: prone to mood swings, black depression, high elation, and a general lack of decorum. He puts on performances at the mill for local children at which he specialises in imitating animals and making fun of the village notables. Already prejudiced against him by his jibes, the villagers reserve most ire for the howling which Huttunen indulges in at night, which the local dogs join in delirious chorus. Passionate and outraged by his treatment at the hands of the villagers, it is not long before the accident-prone miller finds that his situation soon spirals out of control . . . Paasilinna's riotous book revels in a black, rebellious, deadpan humour. It is also a fable about the eternal struggle between freedom and repressive authority.

The Howling Miller

Il bosco delle Volpi Impiccate

Sangue caldo, nervi d'acciaio

Tavsan Yili

Nøste Kendzior

Harens år

L'allegra apocalisse

Een journalist keert zich in gezelschap van een haas af van de moderne maatschappij.

El año de la liebre

Kollektivt självmord

A delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness __________ 'No wonder the French have made this book into a cult. Finnish wit as sharp as the Arctic weather' Mail on Sunday 'A change-your-life novel' New York Magazine 'Sums up the Finnish culture and people' Guardian __________ Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he encounters an injured hare on a deserted country road. On an impulse he can't fully explain, Vatanen abruptly abandons his car, his home, his wife and his job to chase the hare into the forest. A year of comic misadventures ensues, where Vatanen and his unlikely companion battle through forest fires, pagan sacrifices, military war games and encounters with murderous bears, kept afloat by the help and understanding of other sympathetic free spirits. A much-loved classic in Finland, The Year of the Hare is a freewheeling adventure through the Finnish countryside, and a witty portrayal of one man's long detour from conventional living.

Arto Paasilinna

About

Books

Join the club