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Arto Paasilinna. Kymmenen riivinrautaa: Eroottinen farssi. Helsinki. WSOY. 2001. 247 pages. FIM 175. ISBN 951-0-26201-3
WHEN A MAN TURNS SIXTY, what does he want: respect? admiration? acknowledgment of a long and rewarding career? or maybe hot sex? Rauno Ramekorpi receives them all, and then some, in a birthday tale that only Arto Paasilinna could tell.
Paasilinna's Rauno is successful and seemingly happily married. Born in the rustic far north of Finland, far away from the haunts of the country's pampered elite, Rauno has pulled himself up by the bootstraps to become a leading industrialist with an internationally prominent company of his own. When his business associates and friends shower his stylish Helsinki townhouse with flowers and gifts in honor of his...