by Arto Paasilinna · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143117926
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«The Year of the Hare» is the humorous novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (208 pages, in English).
A journalist hits a hare with his car and, instead of carrying on with his life, abandons his job, his marriage and his possessions to wander for a year through the forests of Finland with the animal as his companion. Comic misadventures follow: being chased by dogs, attending an official dinner, or searching for a bear near the Russian border.
Originally published in Finnish as Jäniksen vuosi (1975); this English edition appeared in 2010. The novel was awarded the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize in 1994.
For readers of humour, Finnish literature and adventure stories with a picaresque tone.
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".
