ARGONAUT BOOKS

Gunnar Huttunen arrives in North Finland after the war and buys a dilapidated mill. Despite being a decent and hard-working Finn he is also an outsider and an eccentric, prone to mood swings, black depression, high elation and a general lack of decorum. Reviews A gem of a novelNew York TimesProfound . . . Paasilinna's singular vision of freedom and persecution proves beguilingGuardianPart myth, part fable and part novel - a form that has a funny way of bypassing the head and directly affecting the animal instinctsLos Angeles TimesA literary folk tale . . . ExtraordinaryT...Read More