Search results for ""Author Arto Paasilinna""

Un avión en el que viaja una misión de la ONU se ve obligado a efectuar un aterrizaje de emergencia en un rincón perdido del archipiélago indonesio. Los supervivientes ?una variopinta pandilla de enfermeras suecas, comadronas y leñadores finlandeses, médicos noruegos, azafatas y pilotos ingleses? consiguen alcanzar una playa rodeada por una jungla impenetrable. Superada la consternación inicial, la comunidad de náufragos se dedica con creciente alegría a la organización de la supervivencia. Gracias a su humor irreverente y a sus personajes anárquicos, locos y rebeldes, Paasilinna le da la vuelta al topos literario de la isla desierta y se inventa una hilarante aventura utópica.Con ese humor a ratos punzante, flemático o disparatado que tanto gusta hoy, se divierte trazando las particularidades del ser humano: egoísmo, necedad, locura... y una incorregible ternura (Claudine Coddens, Télérama).Una muestra del poderoso encanto que desprende la obra de este moralista jovial (Elle).

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When Gunnar Huttunen turns up in a small village to restore its run-down mill, its inhabitants are wary. Gunnar is big. He's a bit odd. And, strangest of all, he howls wildly at night. If Gunnar is different, then he must be mad, the villagers decide. Hounded from his home, he must find a way to survive the wilds of nature and the greater savagery of civilization. The Howling Miller is a dark fairytale of community, conformity and our place in the world.

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A delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he encounters an injured hare on a deserted country road. On an impulse he can't fully explain, Vatanen abruptly abandons his car, his home, his wife and his job to chase the hare into the forest. A year of comic misadventures ensues, where Vatanen and his unlikely companion battle through forest fires, pagan sacrifices, military war games and encounters with murderous bears, kept afloat by the help and understanding of other sympathetic free spirits. A much-loved classic in Finland, The Year of the Hare is a freewheeling adventure through the Finnish countryside, and a witty portrayal of one man's long detour from conventional living.

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