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The year of the hare : a novel / Arto Paasilinna ; [translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas] ; foreword by Pico Iyer.

Title
  1. The year of the hare : a novel / Arto Paasilinna ; [translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas] ; foreword by Pico Iyer.
Published by
  1. New York : Penguin Books, 2010.
Author
  1. Paasilinna, Arto, 1942-2018

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Additional authors
  1. Lomas, Herbert
  2. Iyer, Pico
Description
  1. xi, 194 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
  1. After his car hits a bunny, which ultimately survives, a man decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering around the countryside of Finland--with the rabbit as his only companion.
Uniform title
  1. Jäniksen vuosi. English
Alternative title
  1. Jäniksen vuosi.
Subject
  1. 2000-2099
  2. Rabbits -- Fiction
  3. Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
  4. Finland -- Fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Humorous fiction
Contents
  1. The hare -- Statement of account -- Arrangements -- Grasses -- Arrest -- The district superintendent -- The president -- Forest fire -- In the marsh -- In the church -- Granddad -- Kurko -- The raven -- The sacrificer -- The bear -- The dinner -- The fire -- The Helsinki -- Crapula -- Humiliation -- A visit -- The White Sea -- In government hands.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "Translation copyright Herbert Lomas, 1995"--T.p. verso.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain