by Arto Paasilinna · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782207258194
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«Le Bestial Serviteur du pasteur Huuskonen» is the humorous novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Denoël in paperback (320 pages, in French).
Pastor Oskar Huuskonen, in the midst of a personal and religious crisis, receives an orphaned bear cub as a birthday gift from his parishioners. He soon grows fond of the animal and ends up involved with a biologist, while his marriage falls apart and the bishop sets him aside. He then embarks with the bear on a long journey through Europe in search of meaning.
The work, originally published in Finnish in 1995 as «Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelija», features a French translation by Anne Colin du Terrail.
Suitable for readers who appreciate humor and stories featuring animals.
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".
