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The Year of the Hare : A Novel by Arto Paasilinna; Pico Iyer; Herbert Lomas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From Publishers WeeklyFirst 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 youth had not been realized, far from it"--Kaarlo Vatanen takes off after a hare he and his friend have accidentally hit while driving. He tends to the hare's leg, befriends the critter, deserts his friend, gradually sheds his former life, and eventually refits a cozy cabin in the wilds of Lapland. Paasilinna fashions in each step of Kaarlo's transformation a test of society's institutions, and finds each, not surprisingly, wanting, from law enforcement and the construction industry to the army. The hare, meanwhile, is innocently plucky, leaving his droppings on the altar of a church and in the soup of a Swedish lady. It's cute enough, if baldly obvious in the way that parables often are. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. FromA Finnish journalist and a photographer out on assignment one June evening suddenly hit a young hare on a country road. The photographer, ultimately unsympathetic, abandons his journalist
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- Author
- Arto Paasilinna; Pico Iyer; Herbert Lomas
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780143117926
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 3.62 / 5 (97 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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