The Year of the Hare (novel)
1975 book by Arto Paasilinna / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Year of the Hare (Finnish: Jäniksen vuosi) is a 1975 picaresque novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna.
Author | Arto Paasilinna |
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Original title | Jäniksen vuosi |
Translator | Herbert Lomas |
Country | Finland |
Language | Finnish |
Publisher | Weilin+Göös |
Publication date | 1975 |
Published in English | March 1995 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 182 |
ISBN | 951-35-1252-5 |
OCLC | 2195299 |
The novel has been translated into 29 languages including English, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Rumanian, Russian, Swedish, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian. 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 1977 Finnish film called The Year of the Hare, and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called Le Lièvre de Vatanen.