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Loading... Onnellinen mies (1976)by Arto Paasilinna
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Siltainsinööri Jaatinen saa tehtäväkseen rakentaa betonisillan Kuusmäen pitäjään. Reiluna miehenä hän pärjää mainiosti työmiestensä ja kahden vaimonsa kanssa, mutta pikku pitäjän pamput alkavat heitellä kapuloita Jaatisen rattaisiin oikein olan takaa. No library descriptions found. |
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Engineer Akseli Jaatinen is sent to Kuusmäki to build a new road bridge on a site where there had been a bloody battle between the Whites and the Reds in 1918. Although he's clearly competent and efficient, the conservative clique that runs the town (the mayor, the parson, the police chief and the headmaster) takes against him - he doesn't treat them with the sort of respect they feel they deserve, and he fraternises with his workers in a suspiciously "socialist" way. The civic dignitaries do their best to humiliate him and put obstacles in his way, and eventually succeed in getting him dismissed from his post. But Jaatinen isn't beaten as easily as that - he comes back to Kuusmäki, and takes his revenge on them, one by one, in charming and subtle ways...
Not profound literature, by any means, but an entertaining comic read for a journey, with a few nice insights into the ways small communities can inadvertently turn to hypocrisy, self-interest and a closed mindset. ( )