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The Year of the Hare - Paasilinna
Audio performance by Simon Vance
3 stars
This is a comic novel written more than 40 years ago by the Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. The hapless hero Vatanen, leaves his divisive marriage and his pointless journalism job to rescue and befriend an injured hare. He adopts a somewhat nomadic existence that takes him back to the land in various menial jobs. This results in a series of farcical encounters that are told with a dry humor that pokes a satirical finger to ...more
Audio performance by Simon Vance
3 stars
This is a comic novel written more than 40 years ago by the Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. The hapless hero Vatanen, leaves his divisive marriage and his pointless journalism job to rescue and befriend an injured hare. He adopts a somewhat nomadic existence that takes him back to the land in various menial jobs. This results in a series of farcical encounters that are told with a dry humor that pokes a satirical finger to ...more
Synopsis: Arto Paasilinna is a Laplander, born in Finland in 1942. He is a woodcutter, farm labor, journalist and poet and author of more than thirty novels. The short little story is the tale of a journalist who one day walks away from it all after finding a wounded hare that was just hit by their car. The adventure takes us through Finland with the man and the hare. He works in the forest, helps with various jobs and runs into all kinds of adventures such as forest fires, bears and ravens. It
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