Arto Paasilinna, Author Peter Owen Publishers $29 (135p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0949-3
In this back-to-nature picaresque from Finland, a ``dissatisfied, cynical'' journalist adopts an injured leveret as his companion on a series of mildly quixotic, satirically rendered wanderings. Leaving behind a spiritless job and a loveless...
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Arto Paasilinna, Author, Will Hobson, Translator , trans. from the Finnish into French by Anne Colin du Terrail; trans. from the Canongate $14 (284p) ISBN 978-1-84767-181-3
Gunnar Huttunen, the cranky protagonist of Paasilinna’s dreary novel, never learned to use an inside voice. Ranging north from southern Finland after WWII, the widower takes over a long-abandoned mill in Suukosi, much to the amusement of the...
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Arto Paasilinna, Author, Herbert Lomas, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $21.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1017-8
A man abandons his conventional life and hits the road with a hare in this offbeat picaresque fable. (Sept.)
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Arto Paasilinna, trans. from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas, Penguin, $14 trade paper (194p) ISBN 978-0-14-311792-6
First published in 1975 at the height of the back-to-nature movement, Paasilinna's charming, low-key allegory pursues a journalist abandoning his Helsinki life for the companionship of a pet hare. Approaching middle age—"the hopes of [his] youth had
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