The beggar & the hare
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tuomas Kyrö ; translated by David McDuff
Contributors: McDuff, David, 1945- translator
Edition: First Marble Arch Press trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Atria Books/Marble Arch Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781476775364
Subjects: Romanians; Fiction; Social life and customs
Other titles: Beggar and the hare
Work titles: Kerjäläinen ja jänis
Description: Follows a Romanian beggar living on the streets of Helsinki. Vatanescu, a young Romanian construction worker, desires two things: a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son. So off he goes to a cold, dark country to beg. Despite reading about Finland in the novels of Arto Paasilinna, Vatanescu has no idea what he is in for, and soon he is living on the streets of Helsinki, throwing feasts from the contents of a dumpster with his fellow beggars. Little does he realize, however, that his employer is about to ruin his bacchanal, and much, much more... As Vatanescu flees from international crime organizations as well as the Finnish police, he finds an unlikely companion: a hare who has been sentenced to death for living within Helsinki's city limits. Together, Vatanescu and his new fellow fugitive set on a journey from Lapland to the National Idea Park construction site, to the upper echelons of Finnish politics.