Year of the Hare - Softcover

Arto, Paasilinna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0720612772 ISBN 13: 9780720612776

Verlag: Peter Owen Publishers, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Vatanen, the journalist is feeling burned out and sick of the city. One summer evening while on assignment his car hits a young hare on a country road. Vatanen leaves the car to save the injured creature., This small incident becomes a turning point in Vatanen's life as he decides to break free from the world's constraints. He quits his job, leaves his wife, sells his possessions to travel the Finnish wilds with his new found friend. Their adventures take in forest fires, pagan sacrifices, military war games, killer bears and much more.

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Críticas:

"His protagonists...are like Vatanen, strong - some very strong - eccentric and often loners. He makes sardonic fun of Finnish bureaucrats, German tourists, the Finnish military and selfish young people."

Biografía del autor:

ARTO PAASILINNA was born in Kittila Finland in 1942. After a successful, but ultimately meaningless, punt as a journalist, he quit his job and sold his boat to write The Year of the Hare, which has since gone on to become an international best-seller. Since the early 1970s, he has written a novel a year, in which dissatisfied Fins run for the forests, shaking off their urban shackles in search of idyllic self-sufficiency. To this end he has sold more than 7 million books in 27 languages.

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• Verlag: Peter Owen Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0720612772
• ISBN 13: 9780720612776
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140