by Arto Paasilinna · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070386024
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«Le Lièvre de Vatanen» is Arto Paasilinna's eco-humour novel, published by Gallimard in paperback (235 pages, in French).
One Sunday in June, Vatanen, a journalist in Helsinki, injures a hare with his car and decides to abandon his life to care for it. Vatanen's journey towards the Arctic Circle, through the seasons and dotted with encounters and absurd situations, becomes a fable of ecological humour and freedom.
Original title: «Jäniksen vuosi». Translation by Anne Colin du Terrail. Number 2462 in the Folio collection. Giuseppe Acerbi Prize 1994.
Aimed at readers of humour and Nordic literature, and at those who enjoy stories of escape into nature.
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".
