num_pages: 136
description: Suddenly realizing what's important in life (with the help of a bunny), a man quits his job and heads to the countryside in this internationally bestselling comic novel."Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious 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 .While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes 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.
language: English
title: The Year of the Hare
titlecomplete: The Year of the Hare
characters: Kaarlo Vatanen
genres: Adventure, Finnish Literature, Animals, Novels, Humor, Classics, Scandinavian Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Audiobook
ratings_count: 14348
places: Finland
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi
publisher: Peter Owen Publishers