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A review by saareman
The Year of the Hare: A Novel by Arto Paasilinna
4.0
Finnish cousin to Toomas Nipernaadi
I quite enjoyed this often humorous adventure through Finnish forests and countryside with a journalist who abandons his life in order to wander about with a hare that he nurses back to health after an injury. The situations they encounter range from forest fires to modern-day shamans seeking animal sacrifices to encounters with the Finnish bureaucracy & legal system, and battles to outwit or outfight a raven and a bear.
Although the situations are not exactly similar I was often reminded of the Estonian wanderlust classic [b:Toomas Nipernaadi|7704472|Toomas Nipernaadi|August Gailit|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1300882315s/7704472.jpg|10407975] from 1928 which only increased my affection for this 1975 work by Paasilinna.
I hadn't actually read anything else by the Finnish writer before this and I only came across it because it was a recent (October 2017) Audible Daily Deal. I'd certainly be open to reading/listening to more of his work. The reading by veteran narrator Simon Vance was well done.
I quite enjoyed this often humorous adventure through Finnish forests and countryside with a journalist who abandons his life in order to wander about with a hare that he nurses back to health after an injury. The situations they encounter range from forest fires to modern-day shamans seeking animal sacrifices to encounters with the Finnish bureaucracy & legal system, and battles to outwit or outfight a raven and a bear.
Although the situations are not exactly similar I was often reminded of the Estonian wanderlust classic [b:Toomas Nipernaadi|7704472|Toomas Nipernaadi|August Gailit|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1300882315s/7704472.jpg|10407975] from 1928 which only increased my affection for this 1975 work by Paasilinna.
I hadn't actually read anything else by the Finnish writer before this and I only came across it because it was a recent (October 2017) Audible Daily Deal. I'd certainly be open to reading/listening to more of his work. The reading by veteran narrator Simon Vance was well done.