It’s the night before the feast in the village of Fürstenfelde (population: declining). The village is asleep. Except for the ferryman—he’s dead. And Mrs. Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells—the only problem is that the bells have gone. A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr. Schramm is discovering more reasons to quit life than to quit smoking.
Author of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, this is Stanišić’s second novel, winner of the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
“With dancing virtuoisty, Stanišić knits a dozen charcters into a multi-stranded tissue of gossip, myth and memory…a late-summer night’s dream” – Independent
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