by Arto Paasilinna · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788203210471
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«Den ulende mølleren» is Arto Paasilinna's humorous novel, published by Aschehoug in paperback (218 pages, in Norwegian).
After the Second World War, Gunnar Huttunen arrives in a village in northern Finland, buys an old mill that has not been used for thirty years and sets about restoring it. He is not mad, but he has a quirk: whenever anything goes wrong, he feels the need to go into the forest and howl at the moon. The neighborhood, which only wants to sleep, tries to lock him up; Huttunen resists and turns his cause into a fight for freedom.
The original work was published in Finnish in 1981 under the title «Ulvova mylläri»; this Norwegian edition is translated by Nøste Kendzior.
For readers who appreciate Nordic literature, subtle humor and eccentric characters clashing with rural life.
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".
