Anne Colin du Terrail Poradie kníh

Drobná starenka, vdova po plukovníkovi Ravaskovi, zalieva v krásny slnečný deň záhon sirôtok. Lenže stará dáma je nepokojná. V deň, keď si chodí vyzdvihnúť dôchodok, máva mesiac čo mesiac nepríjemnú návštevu – o veľkú časť peňazí ju prichádza obrať jej synovec so svojimi kumpánmi z Helsínk. Mladí búrliváci sa potom saunujú a opíjajú, bohapusto vystrájajú. Deň dôchodku sa pre starenku stal nočnou morou, a keď zistí, že jej nevie pomôcť ani polícia, rázne vezme osud do vlastných rúk.

A deliciously sinister Finnish fairytale of difference and belonging

An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man--with the help of a bunny--suddenly realizes what's important in life "Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun." --NPR.org "Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland--with the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go--whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia--they leave mayhem (and laughter!) in their wake.