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Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

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in Jyväskylä, Finland

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Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen is Finland’s best kept literary secret…

In the early 70’s, when he was five, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen lived in a block of flats by the Jyväskylä’s (a city in Central Finland) old cemetery and believed in vampires.

In the early 80’s he still had vampire dreams and fell in love with Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut’s Jules et Jim.

Ten years later Pasi wrote his first short stories. He wan the writing competition of SciFi and fantasy stories four times and then decided to become a writer.

Now he is an author, but he is also a Finnish and literature teacher in upper secondary school and the father of three sons.

He hasn’t stopped loving vampires, Jeanne Moreau and old film classics.

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	The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Lola Rogers (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 5,976 ratings — published 2006 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Passages in a Hillside Town by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Lola Rogers (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.46 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lesní lišky a další znepokojivé příběhy by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Leena Krohn, Tiina Raevaara 3.82 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Väärän kissan päivä 3.87 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sielut kulkevat sateessa 3.53 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Trains Turn 3.60 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taivaalta pudonnut eläintarha 3.77 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taevast kukkunud loomaaed by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Arvi Nikkarev (translator) 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Kuurupiilon anatomia (Atena, julkaisu kesäkuussa 2023). Esittelyteksti:

Taianomainen romaani kuurupiiloon kadonneen veljen etsinnästä. M ei ole tavallinen lapsi: hän joutuu opettelemaan arkipäiväisetkin asiat kuin muualta tullut vakooja. Iloa tuo isoveljen kehittelemä maailman ihmeellisin leikki, marsilainen kuurupiilo. Kun loistava isoveli katoaa, M syyttää itseään. Vuosien päästä hänen on lähdettävä etsimään totuutta veljen kohtalosta ja siitä, mistä kuurupiilossa t Read more of this blog post »

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“Everybody knows that no healthy person would take up writing novels. Healthy people do healthy things. All this darned hoopla and hot air about literature—what is it really but mental derangement run through a printing press?”
― Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society

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“Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.”
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“Happiness, in other words, is a temporary glitch in evolution.”
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