«Tysyacha CHertey pastora Huuskonena» eto rasskazannyy v realiyah konca XX veka roman-piskareska: uvlekatel'noe puteshestvie, inogda absurdnyy, na grani fantasticheskogo, yumor i poisk otvetov na glavnye voprosy. Finskiy pisatel' Arto Paasilinna schitaetsya nastoyashchim yumoristicheskim filosofom.
Pastoru Huuskonenu ispolnilos' pyat'desyat. Ego brak treshchit po shvam, nauchnye publikacii vyzyvayut osuzhdenie nachal'stva, religiya bol'she ne nahodit otklika v serdce. Prihvativ s soboy dressirovannogo medvedya CHerta, Huuskonen pokidaet rodnoy gorod. Mnogo peripetiy zhdet ih v doroge put' prolegaet ot Belogo do CHernogo morya, cherez holodnuyu Rossiyu i zharkie tropicheskie ostrova. Gde otyshchut oni dom i smozhet li pastor nakonec ponyat': v chem zaklyuchaetsya smysl zhizni?
