The Hour of the Rabbit

What connects a man, a rabbit, and a machine? Set in the near future, The Hour of the Rabbit is a chillingly wonderful novel about alienation and interspecies relationships.

Alia is born into an isolated Esperanto-speaking eco-community where parenthood is perceived as not biological.
As a grownup, Alia’s work consists of taking care of the former farm animals. When Mirio, who raised her, ends up in a hospital, Alia has to take care of his rabbits.
At Mirio’s home, she is surprised to meet Bertha, a robot who speaks Esperanto and Finnish, and on top of that knows a frightening lot about her.

The Hour of the Rabbit is like a feverish dream that stirs the reader’s brain by asking fundamental questions. What is our connection with others based on? What does it mean to be human? Or to be a caring creature? How is a community, a family, a partnership created?