The Year of the Hare
by Arto Paasilinna
A journalist abandons his life for an injured hare.
you've fantasized about walking away from everything and actually want to see what that looks like
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A journalist hits a hare with his car, takes it home to recover, and then simply doesn't go back to his job, his wife, or his life. He wanders Finland with the hare instead. Paasilinna's deadpan comedy is the most Finnish book on this shelf — the relationship to solitude, the distrust of ambition, the forest as the only honest companion. A dispatch about the specifically Nordic fantasy of escape from the social contract, told with the kind of humor that only works if you've spent a Finnish winter.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Finland • Scandinavia
- Voice
- Written by a Finnish author
- Themes
- Defiant Joy
