by Arto Paasilinna · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070446537
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«Le potager des malfaiteurs ayant échappé à la pendaison» is the humour and suspense novel by Arto Paasilinna (Folio, paperback; 384 pp., in French).
Chief Inspector Jalmari Jyllänketo is sent by Finnish National Security to western Lapland to investigate disappearances at a former kolkhoz turned agricultural estate, with iron mines converted into mushroom farms and peat bogs into organic gardens. What does L'Étang aux Rennes and its mysterious owner hide?
French translation by Anne Colin du Terrail. Original Finnish title: «Hirttämättömien lurjusten yrttitarha» (1998). Folio collection edition (no. 10851).
For those who enjoy Finnish narrative and novels combining humour, mystery and a Nordic rural setting.
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".
