by Arto Paasilinna · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782207259337
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«Le Lièvre de Vatanen» is the humorous novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Denoël in paperback (196 pages, in French).
Vatanen, a journalist from Helsinki, returns from the countryside one June afternoon when his companion runs over a hare. He goes into the bushes, rescues the injured animal, nurses it back to health, and decides to head into the wild with it. Together they live many absurd adventures as they make their way toward the Arctic Circle through the seasons.
Original title: «Jäniksen vuosi» (1975). French edition published in 2006. The work received the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize in 1994.
A read for those who enjoy Nordic humour, absurd adventures, and stories about the bond between humans and animals.
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".
