by Arto Paasilinna · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433974006
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In the quiet countryside near Helsinki, the life of Linnea Ravaska, an octogenarian widow, is disturbed by thugs who steal her pension. Her grandson Kauko and his accomplices destroy everything, torture the cat, and beat without reason, until she decides to flee to Helsinki. The revenge of the infernal trio could be a nightmare, but Paasilinna prefers farce and paradox to criticize a society with evils such as forgotten old age, marginalized youth, the collapse of institutions, drugs, alcoholism, and AIDS. The old woman, armed with a Parabellum, defends her dignity with candor and naive cruelty.
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".
