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Arto Paasilinna
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The Year of the Hare
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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna (20. huhtikuuta 1942 Kittilä – 15. lokakuuta 2018 Espoo) oli suomalainen kirjailija Paasilinna julkaisi uransa aikana kolmekymmentäviisi romaania ja lukuisia muita teoksia. Hänen tunnetuimpiin teoksiinsa lukeutuvat romaanit Jäniksen vuosi, Ulvova mylläri ja Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty yli 40 kielelle ja niitä on myyty maailmanlaajuisesti yli kahdeksan miljoonaa kappaletta. Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland". Paasilinna is mostly known for his 1975 novel The Year of the Hare (Jäniksen vuosi).
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2023192 pagesPushkin Press
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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
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.
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