{"product_id":"the-year-of-the-hare","title":"The Year of the Hare","description":"\u003cp\u003eA delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he encounters an injured hare on a deserted country road.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn an impulse he can't fully explain, Vatanen abruptly abandons his car, his home, his wife and his job to chase the hare into the forest. A year of comic misadventures ensues, where Vatanen and his unlikely companion battle through forest fires, pagan sacrifices, military war games and encounters with murderous bears, kept afloat by the help and understanding of other sympathetic free spirits. A much-loved classic in Finland, The Year of the Hare is a freewheeling adventure through the Finnish countryside, and a witty portrayal of one man's long detour from conventional living.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pushkin Press\u003cbr\u003ePages: 192\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781805330356\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1805330356\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arto Paasilinna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45367831232778,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781805330356.jpg?v=1711454131","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-year-of-the-hare","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}