When Gunnar Huttunen turns up in a small village to restore its run-down mill, its inhabitants are wary. Gunnar is big. He's a bit odd. And, strangest of all, he howls wildly at night.

If Gunnar is different, then he must be mad, the villagers decide. Hounded from his home, he must find a way to survive the wilds of nature and the greater savagery of civilization.

The Howling Miller is a dark fairytale of community, conformity and our place in the world.

"A gem of a novel" - * New York Times *

"Profound . . . Paasilinna's singular vision of freedom and persecution proves beguiling" - * Guardian *

"Part myth, part fable and part novel - a form that has a funny way of bypassing the head and directly affecting the animal instincts" - * Los Angeles Times *

"A literary folk tale . . . Extraordinary" - * Times Literary Supplement *

"It's a riotous novel, full of deadpan humour told in a comic style that, as the opening paragraph suggests, comes across like a fable" - * booklit.com *