{"product_id":"the-year-of-the-hare-isbn-9780143117926","title":"The Year of the Hare","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eRaising Hare\u003c\/i\u003e: an internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man—with the help of a bunny—suddenly realizes what’s important in life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun.” —NPR.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Hare\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel in the bestselling tradition of \u003ci\u003eWatership Down\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Livingston Seagull\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.“A change-your-life novel.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, The Approval Matrix: Highbrow\/Brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] wonderful book . . . If you are too timid to actually cut all the ties to your ‘civilized’ life, but still have a yearning to get away from clocks and calendars, Arto Paasilinna’s \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Hare\u003c\/i\u003e provides the perfect escape literature. . . . The humor in this book just sneaks up on you. . . . [It] will have you laughing and gasping by turns. . . . The writing is as spare and clean as the lines of Scandinavian design. . . . Of the many lines in this book that I cherished, the last is one of the most delicious: ‘Vatanen is a man to be reckoned with.’ So is this book.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLonely Planet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A fable of the joys of freedom . . . The hare proves to be a delightful, undemanding, and loyal companion, who can laugh, listen, and feel embarrassment.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Paasilinna’s style is all Finn—a sly sense of humor, a simplicity, a moral compass that points firmly north and out of doors, away from cities. . . . Readers root for Vatanen as he leaps off the mad merry-go-round.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Compelling . . . You might just find yourself wishing for a hare to enter your life in the near future.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Beguiling, gently ironic . . . [an] ode to spontaneity and serendipity.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] joy . . . The glory of the outdoors is celebrated here, through each season, and we can nearly smell the early clover and meadow vetchling of the hare’s diet. . . . Vatanen is who we want to be [and] who we yearn to be brave enough to become, as soon as we stop waiting for the timing to be right.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Hilarious . . . With its fiercely independent protagonist and its depiction of Finland’s wild northland, this comic novel will offer readers a rare opportunity to experience Finland and read one of that country’s most popular authors.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Hare\u003c\/i\u003e offers enjoyable yarns: fun adventures, agreeably related. . . . It’s so good-natured and has so much varied action—and that animal-appeal—that it makes for a consistently enjoyable read.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Exhilarating . . . The sheer literary delight of Arto Paasilinna’s comic novels is one of the best-kept secrets in Finland. . . . You’ll want to laugh out loud at all the good parts, and savor every lean, simple, honest sentence.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Hare\u003c\/i\u003e is only the most Finnish, and perhaps most antically Zen-ish, of a shelf-load of books that tell us to find and live by our own ideas of contentment.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An exemplary comic novel, full of amiable if binding warnings about the septic follies of civilization—to be read with rising anxiety and delight.” \u003cb\u003e—Thomas McGuane, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Silence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Step out of the domestic gulag and into \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Hare\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel that depicts the confident freedom of the journeyman. I loved it.” \u003cb\u003e—Matthew Crawford, author of \u003ci\u003eShop Class as Soulcraft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I love \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Hare\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Which of us wouldn’t secretly want to live in a novel as fresh and as full of events as this one?” \u003cb\u003e—Pico Iyer, from the Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Paasilinna has been amusing Finns for thirty years and readers in twenty-five languages.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eArto Paasilinna \u003c\/b\u003e(1942–2018) was born in Lapland, Finland. By turns woodcutter, agricultural laborer, journalist, and poet, he was also an award-winning author of more than thirty novels, all of which have been translated into numerous languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePico Iyer\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) wrote an essay that became one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e’ most e-mailed articles, about leaving a life as a successful journalist for a simpler life. He is the author of two novels and numerous nonfiction books about the cultures of the world, including \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Stillness, The Open Road, Autumn Light,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Beginner’s Guide to Japan.\u003c\/i\u003e He has never been to Finland except through the pages of this book.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303390564581,"sku":"NP9780143117926","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143117926.jpg?v=1767742355","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-year-of-the-hare-isbn-9780143117926","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}