by Arto Paasilinna · Eikasia · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467224979
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«Delicioso suicidio en grupo» is the black humor novel by Arto Paasilinna, published in hardcover (255 pages, in Spanish).
A ruined businessman and a widowed colonel coincide in attempting to take their own lives in the same barn. They strike up a friendship and create an association of suicide aspirants; with other Finns they travel across Europe by coach seeking a cliff for their collective suicide. Black humor and reflection on life and death combine.
The original Finnish title is «Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha» (1990); translation by Dulce Fernández Anguita. Edition published in 2007.
For readers with a taste for black comedy and contemporary Nordic literature.
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
