{"product_id":"one-thousand-one-9781940625621","title":"One Thousand \u0026 One","description":"\"All thought is driven out of sight, and before long unpleasant things start to happen right in front of us...\" Kari Hukkila's One Thousand \u0026amp; One is a philosophical, essayistic novel about catastrophes, both natural and man-made, about humans' ability to respond to catastrophes by thinking or, at the very least, simply managing to survive. Hukkila's novel is a cornucopia of micro-histories, digressions, and a broad gallery of characters ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to an Ethiopian refugee in Rome. One Thousand \u0026amp; One begins when a large birch tree falls on a cabin near the Russian border in eastern Finland, leaving the narrator unable to concentrate on a writing project he has been at work on. He decides then to take up an invitation to Rome, where his lifelong friend has lived since abandoning a life in philosophy. In Hukkila's novel, Scheherazade's survival by continuing to tell stories is reimagined as survival by continuing to think, a continued thought activity, often taken to extremes, the preservation of humanity in an inhumane world. In David Hackston's eloquent translation, Hukkila's musical, meandering, thought-provoking prose is full of savage, ironic, and luminous humor, remaining uncompromisingly alive until the final sentence. One Thousand \u0026amp; One is the first in a projected series of five novels. Upon its release in Finland in 2016 it was said to bear \"all the hallmarks of a classic.\" \"Thought no longer had a place in the world, and of course if you're an illegal it's all but impossible.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Contra Mundum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510056325394,"sku":"9781940625621","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f22ce41c-15ff-4614-8e92-ab96af7fa3bd.jpg?v=1730915540","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-thousand-one-9781940625621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}