A Happy Man (Onnellinen mies)

A wickedly funny satire about money, power, and the joys of small-town life.

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen is tasked with replacing Kuusmäki’s rotten wooden bridge with a concrete one, on the very spot where, during the 1918 civil war, a bloody battle between the ‘whites’ and ‘reds’ took place – an episode whose memory continues to divide the residents of the village.

The parish council hold a grudge against Jaatinen and do everything they can to stop him completing the project on time. But the feisty Finn refuses to surrender.

Title: A Happy Man (Onnellinen mies)
Published: 1976

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