Author: Paasilinna, Arto

Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers

Color: Black

Edition: Original

Binding: paperback

Format: roughcut

Number Of Pages: 208

Release Date: 28-12-2010

Part Number: 0143117920_used

Details: For fans of Raising Hare: an internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man—with the help of a bunny—suddenly realizes what’s 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 of The 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 Finland—with the bunny as his boon companion.

What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go—whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia—they leave mayhem (and laughter!) in their wake.

EAN: 9780143117926

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English