The Year of the Hare (novel)

The Year of the Hare (Finnish: Jäniksen vuosi) is a 1975 novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. It tells the story of Kaarlo Vatanen, a frustrated journalist, who, after nearly killing a hare with his car, decides to live with the hare in the wilderness.

The novel has been translated into over a dozen languages including English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Slovenian and Estonian. It is Paasilinna's most widely read work^[1] and was included in 1994 in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works which funded the 1995 English translation by Herbert Lomas. It was adapted twice into feature films: a Finnish 1977 film called The Year of the Hare, and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called Le Lièvre de Vatanen.

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References

• Arto Paasilinna, Herbert Lomas (tr.). The Year of the Hare. ISBN 0-7206-1017-6 (1995, 1st ed.). ISBN 978-0-7206-1277-6 (2006, 6th ed.)

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Reviews

• The Year of the Hare at The New York Times
• The Year of the Hare at World Literature Today (via Article Archives, JavaScript required)
• The Year of the Hare at complete review
• The Year of the Hare at The Literary Traveller