by Arto Paasilinna · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433974969
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«La dulce envenenadora» is the humorous novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (200 pages, in Spanish).
An elderly woman named Linnea Ravaska, an octogenarian widow, suffers thefts and abuse at her rural home from her grandson Kauko and his cronies. When she flees to Helsinki, farce, revenge and paradox take over the plot. Paasilinna satirizes the abandonment of old age, youth marginalization, alcoholism, drugs and institutional decay.
Number 714 in the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Elena Fernández Anguita.
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate Scandinavian humor, farce and social satire.
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".
