by Arto Paasilinna · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433975218
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Immerse yourself in the hilarious adventures and profound reflections of 'The Best Friend of the Bear,' a novel by acclaimed author Arto Paasilinna. In this story, a bear given to a Protestant pastor in crisis becomes an unexpected escape valve. Together, they embark on an odyssey full of adventures, demonstrating that the divine resides in what transcends man. Paasilinna intertwines picaresque inventions with philosophical interrogations, offering a divine mockery of hypocrisy and social conventions.
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".
