by Arto Paasilinna · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070359493
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«Le bestial serviteur du pasteur Huuskonen» is the novel by Finnish writer Arto Paasilinna, published by Gallimard in paperback (366 pages).
Pastor Oskari Huuskonen is going through a crisis: his faith wavers, his marriage is shaky, and the Church criticizes his sermons. An orphaned bear cub named Belzéb and a biologist accompany him on a wild journey through Europe and the Middle East, a picaresque adventure that portrays religious hypocrisy and social conventions with irony.
The novel was originally published in Finnish as «Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelija» in 1995; this French edition by Gallimard belongs to the Folio collection.
For readers of satirical humor and Nordic literature who enjoy travel plots and absurd situations.
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".
