The Year of the Hare

An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man—with the help of a bunny—suddenly realizes what’s important in life

“Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun.” —NPR.org 

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“Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?” 

With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, & Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. 

This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, & spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland—with the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go—whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia—they leave mayhem (and laughter!) in their wake.