The Ten Shrews (Kymmenen Riivinrautaa)

An unmissable erotic farce from Finland’s best known comic novelist Arto Paasilinna.

When factory manager Rauno Rämekorpi’s wife asks him to bin the copious amount of birthday flowers he received for his 60th birthday, he walks out of the front door and doesn’t stop—opting instead to give the flowers to each of his ten ex-lovers, which include a 30-year-old welder and a bishop’s widow at the age of seventy. The result is as side-splitting and farcical as fans of Paasilinna have come to expect.

Title: The Ten Shrews (Kymmenen Riivinrautaa)
Published: 2001

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