by Arto Paasilinna · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070343706
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«Un homme heureux» is the satirical novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Folio in paperback (272 pages, in French).
Akseli Jaatinen, an engineer tasked with building a bridge in Kuusmäki on the site of a 1918 civil war battle, arouses hostility through his unconventional methods; humiliated and dismissed, he plots a methodical revenge. It is a political fable with a Finnish western feel that satirises hypocrisy and conformism.
The Finnish original was translated into French by Anne Colin du Terrail for this edition published on 1 February 2007.
Aimed at readers of Scandinavian fiction and social satires with mordant humour.
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".
