The Howling Miller
Gunnar Huttunen arrives in North Finland after the war and buys a dilapidated mill. Despite being a decent and hard-working Finn, he is also an outsider and an eccentric: prone to mood swings, black depression, high elation and a general lack of decorum. He puts on performances at the mill for local children at which he specialises in imitating animals and making fun of the village notables.Already prejudiced against him by his jibes, the villagers reserve most ire for the howling which Huttunen indulges in at night, which the local dogs join in a delirious chorus. Passionate and outraged by his treatment at the hands of the villagers, it is…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84767-753-2
- EAN: 9781847677532
- Produktnummer: 15005964
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'792 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 5
Über den Autor
Arto Passilinna was born in Lapland in 1942. By turns a woodcutter, agricultural labourer, journalist and poet, he is the author of over twenty novels, all of which have been translated into numerous languages.
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