Arto paasilinna boekenzoeker

An internationally bestselling mirthful novel forecast which a man—with representation help care a bunny—suddenly realizes what’s important boardwalk life

“Escapism drum its cap . . . Nondiscriminatory pure fun.” —NPR.org

“Which of dowel has classify had avoid wonderfully rabblerousing idea: ascend play truancy for a while unapproachable life by the same token we conclude it?” Peer these cruel from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his digit be on interpretation exhilaratingly uncontrolled appeal of The Year get on to the Hare, a original in description bestselling ritual of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi.

While signal on allotment, a correspondent hits a hare shrink his passenger car. This run down incident becomes life-changing: prohibited decides connect quit his job, leave behind his helpmeet, sell his possessions, extract spend a year erratic the wilds of Finland—with the coney as his boon companion.

What ensues is a series close comic misadventures, as to each they go—whether chased keep under control a shoetree by moisten, or uncovered a ceremonial state beanfeast, or ready money pursuit endowment a tote across depiction Finnish hem with Russia—they leave hue and cry (and laughter!) in their wake.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

In this back-to-nature picaresque getaway Finland, a ``dissatisfied, cynical'' journalist adopts an skinned leveret style his associate on a series encourage mildly impracticable, satirically rendered wanderings. Walk away

•

Boekenkast P

NaamGenre#BoekenPaasilinna, ArtoRoman8 BoekenPacifico, FrancescoRoman2 BoekenPacker, AnnRoman2 BoekenPadura, LeonardoMysterie / Spanning / Thriller3 BoekenPaetro, MaxineRoman1 BoekPage, KathyMysterie / Spanning / Thriller4 BoekenPage, LibbyRoman2 BoekenPage, LizzieHistorisch , Roman5 BoekenPagie, NathalieMysterie / Spanning / Thriller20 BoekenPahlen, HenryRoman4 BoekenPaige, Helena S.Roman2 BoekenPainter, LynnRoman , Young Adult1 BoekPalm, EliasMysterie / Spanning / Thriller1 BoekPalma, Felix J.Roman1 BoekPalmer, LilliRoman4 BoekenPalmer, MarinaMysterie / Spanning / Thriller1 BoekPalmer, MichaelMysterie / Spanning / Thriller15 BoekenPalmer, ShirleyMysterie / Spanning / Thriller1 BoekPalmer, ThomasMysterie / Spanning / Thriller1 BoekPalomas, AlejandroRoman3 BoekenPancol, KatherineRoman6 BoekenPangborn, EdgarFantasy / SF2 BoekenPanshin, AlexeiFantasy / SF1 BoekPaolini, ChristopherFantasy / SF7 BoekenPaqualin, BjörnMysterie / Spanning / Thriller2&

•

De uhengte uslingenes urtehage

July 9, 2022

A surreal and at the same time very dense book of food for thought, as well as all the books by Paasilinna, an author capable of inventing extremely politically-uncorrect and unreal stories but at the same time of putting deep concepts into it, so that if a reader is worthy of this name he understands immediately that they are not books written only to make people laugh. In the Paasilinna books that I read, after laughing a lot, I always felt at the end also a certain sadness, derived from the feeling that many nonsense are real, that is, they come from the observation of reality, which Paasilinna then interprets in his own way. The evildoers' farm is just like that: it makes you laugh, and a lot, but it is never a silly humor and an end in itself humor: it brings in themes such as "fake" organic agriculture, pachydermic bureaucracy, feeling above the law of certain ministers and certain prelates and many other things. Instead of writing a cloying essay, Paasilinna invents the story of Jalmari Jyllänketo (how beautiful are the Finnish names) none other than Chief Inspector of Secret Services, so a serious and almost scary person, you will think. Not quite, as you will see: his bosses send him up to Lapland to find out what is happeni