The Year of the Hare

Paasilinna, Arto

ISBN 10: 144177212X ISBN 13: 9781441772121

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2010

Synopsis

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. Simultaneous.

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Review:

Paasilinna has been amusing Finns for thirty years and readers in twenty-five languages. He concocts situational comedy highlighted by deadpan, sometimes black humour, the kind familiar in the American Middle West --New York Times

The Year of the Hare reminds us that what seems so important in our daily lives may not be all that permanent or sustaining. --The Wall Street Journal

No wonder the French have made this book into a cult. Finnish wit is as sharp as the Arctic weather. --Mail on Sunday

About the Author:

ARTO PAASILINNA was born in Kittila Finland in 1942. After a successful, but ultimately meaningless, punt as a journalist, he quit his job and sold his boat to write The Year of the Hare, which has since gone on to become an international best-seller. Since the early 1970s, he has written a novel a year, in which dissatisfied Fins run for the forests, shaking off their urban shackles in search of idyllic self-sufficiency. To this end he has sold more than 7 million books in 27 languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 144177212X
• ISBN 13: 9781441772121
• Binding: Audio CD