The Year of the Hare

By Arto Paasilinna (2010)

An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man—with the help of a bunny—suddenly realizes what’s important in life. “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...