The Howling Miller
Arto Paasilinna
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A deliciously sinister Finnish fairytale of difference and belonging
When Gunnar Huttunen turns up in a small village to restore its run-down mill, its inhabitants are wary. Gunnar is big. He’s a bit odd. And, strangest of all, he howls wildly at night.
If Gunnar is different, then he must be mad, the villagers decide. Hounded from his home, he must find a way to survive the wilds of nature and the greater savagery of civilization.
The Howling Miller is a dark fairytale of community, conformity and our place in the world.
“A gem of a novel”
new York Times
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“Profound … Paasilinna’s singular vision of freedom and persecution proves beguiling”
guardian
“Part myth, part fable and part novel - a form that has a funny way of bypassing the head and directly affecting the animal instincts”
los Angeles Times
“A literary folk tale … Extraordinary”
times Literary Supplement
“It’s a riotous novel, full of deadpan humour told in a comic style that, as the opening paragraph suggests, comes across like a fable”
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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Paasilinna 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.
