Lotto Luck
By
Anna-Leena Härkönen
Does money really make you happy? A hilarious novel about a couple who win the lottery jackpot.
Eevi grew up suffering from her parents’ extreme penny-pinching and was bullied at school. She smells the sweet scent of revenge when her lottery numbers come up.
Eevi and her husband Kari purchase a posh apartment, and Eevi buys her former tormentor’s business out from under her and goes off to travel the world.
Her lottery luck has a downside, too. Kari has a taste for booze, and Eevi starts to regard her envious friends and relatives as spongers. Who can she trust now?
About the author
Anna-Leena Härkönen (b. 1965) has been among the most prominent figures in Finnish cultural life for more than thirty years, both as an author and scriptwriter, and as a successful stage and screen actress.Härkönen published her debut, The Poleax (Häräntappoase, 1984), at the age of 18 and achieved enormous critical and popular success with this bold and true-to-life novel. The Poleax has been on the market ever since and is still an essential part of the literary education of the young Finnish readers today. Härkönen uses a language bursting with life, and she has an uncompromising sense of the comical. She is not afraid to touch tabus and difficult subjects in her writing.Härkönen has written around 20 works so far, and her work has been translated into more than 10 languages. Her novels have been made into several films and stage productions, among them the six-part television series The Poleax which has been broadcast several times. Claes Olsson has also directed a full-length feature film based on her novel Aquarium Love.
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