by Arto Paasilinna · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070308088
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«Petits suicides entre amis» is the black-humor novel by Arto Paasilinna, published by Folio in paperback (304 pages, in French).
Onni Rellonen and Colonel Hermanni Kemppainen meet in a barn intent on suicide, but postpone the plan and hire a bus to travel around Finland in search of more candidates. The recruits create the association Anonymous Mortals and set off for Portugal to throw themselves off a cliff. A satire with black humor about suicide.
Work originally published in Finnish as «Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha» (1990); French translation by Anne Colin du Terrail.
General public; a choice for those who enjoy Finnish narrative with absurd situations and road trips.
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".
