By Tuomas Kyro, David McDuff
From a highly renowned, award-winning Finnish author, this pleasing, profound, and satirical story follows a Romanian beggar residing at the streets of Helsinki.
Vatanescu, a tender Romanian development employee, wants issues: a destiny for himself and 2 soccer boots for his son. So off he is going to a chilly, darkish nation to beg.
Despite interpreting approximately Finland within the novels of Arto Paasilinna, Vatanescu has no notion what he's in for, and shortly he's dwelling at the streets of Helsinki, throwing feasts from the contents of a dumpster together with his fellow beggars. Little does he detect, notwithstanding, that his corporation is set to break his bacchanal, and lots more and plenty, a lot more…
As Vatanescu flees from foreign crime enterprises in addition to the Finnish police, he unearths an not going spouse: a hare who has been sentenced to dying for residing inside Helsinki’s urban limits. jointly, Vatanescu and his new fellow fugitive set on a trip from Lapland to the nationwide suggestion Park development website, to the higher echelons of Finnish politics.
Known for his satirical humor and picaresque variety, Tuomas Kyro deals an strange story within the vein of Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred-Year-Old guy and Rachel Joyce’s The not likely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. instantly funny and deeply relocating, The Beggar and the Hare is a contemporary travel de strength.
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Vatanescu sat in the metro, stood on the escalator, sat at his place of work. Today and from now on it would rain; autumn was here, which out in the country meant clear bright air, red and yellow colours everywhere, and rubbish burning in gardens. In the city, however, autumn was a colder, wetter and greyer affair. Vatanescu tried to empty his mind, but some advertising image or passer-by or sound always brought him back to reality. If one forgets about the knee pain, the need to urinate, the homesickness and the shame, this is the most boring job in the world.
If I could, I would protect you. First I must provide for myself. You have always protected me. Klara Vatanescu had taken after her grandmother Murda. Brusque and efficient, in other circumstances she might have been a sturdy nomad or a foreign minister, but in the unique reality that was hers she was now joining the poorest of the poor, a woman who would have to rely on her only marketable goods. Unable to sleep, Vatanescu peered out of the rear window at the foreign church towers and remote villages inhabited by unknown people with their Teflon saucepans and digibox recorders, people who had special times earmarked for meals, for school, for sex, who had plans for the future, mortgages, visits to the orthodontist for their children, pensions, burial plots, obituaries, flowers on their graves, the whole package.
Through her increasing panic she whispered that this was not a vet’s surgery. Vatanescu tried to explain that the rabbit had very probably been born in Finland, somewhere in the area between the Botanic Gardens and the big blue hospital. So perhaps it could be given a social security number and thereby the right to medical treatment. Hertta Mäntylä screamed as though Vatanescu had put a machete to her throat or threatened to blow up the hospital. Hertta Mäntylä pressed the panic button and announced through the loudspeaker that the police were already on their way.
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