The Year of the Hare : A Novel
By Arto Paasilinna; Pico IyerPublisher: Penguin Publishing Group
EAN-13: 9780143117926ISBN-10: 0-14-311792-0
Book Description
An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a manwith the help of a bunnysuddenly realizes whats important in life Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun. NPR.org Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it? With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal ofThe Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finlandwith the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they gowhether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russiathey leave mayhem (and laughter!) in their wake.
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