The Year of the Hare (novel)

This article is about the novel. For the two films, see The Year of the Hare (film) and Le Lièvre de Vatanen.

The Year of the Hare

Author	Arto Paasilinna
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 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, Estonian and Czech. It is Paasilinna's most widely read work 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.

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.)

External links

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