by Arto Paasilinna · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070414253
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«La Cavale du géomètre» is the humorous novel by Finnish writer Arto Paasilinna, published by Gallimard in paperback (267 pages, in French).
A sixty-eight-year-old surveyor suffers amnesia and leaves a bank with a wad of banknotes in his pocket, not knowing who he is or where he is going. On the run, he crosses paths with a taxi driver in no hurry to get home, an Albanian architect, a Bosnian interpreter, twelve French naturists and several drunken peasants.
The original Finnish title is «Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä», a work originally published in 1991; in this French edition, the translation is by Antoine Chalvin.
For those who enjoy absurd comedy and road stories full of eccentric characters.
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".
