Title : The Bestial Servant of Pastor Huuskonen - Arto Paasilinna - book

Summary :

As he approaches his fifties, Pastor Oskari Huuskonen is going through a rough patch. His marriage is on the rocks, his faith is wavering, his preaching, which doesn't conform to the canons of the Church, is drawing the wrath of his superiors, and his parishioners, each one crazier than the last, are causing him a lot of worry. As if that weren't enough, the parish council decides to give him a poisoned chalice for his birthday: a bear cub who has just lost his mother, spectacularly electrocuted to death at the top of a high-voltage pylon. But Huuskonen gradually becomes attached to the bear cub and goes so far as to build him a den for the winter, where he eventually joins them, along with a charming biologist who has come to study the animal's habits. Having rediscovered her faith through contact with the pastor, the biologist, Sonia, distances herself from him, which doesn't stop Huuskonen's wife from filing for divorce. The bishop, for his part, tired of the pastor's oddities, automatically places him on leave. Huuskonen, ruined by his divorce, deprived of a home and a job, sets off on an adventure with his bear. A long journey that will take them from Odessa to Syracuse, from Malta to Southampton, in search of meaning in their lives.

• EAN : 9782207258194
  
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