The highly regarded and bestselling author Saša Stanišic was born in 1978 in what was then Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), and currently lives in Germany. They all want to bring something to a close, in this night before the feast. They come together in a novel about a long night, a mosaic of village life, in which the long-established and newcomers, the dead and the living, craftsmen, pensioners and noble robbers in football shirts bump into each other. Old stories, myths and fairy tales are wandering about the streets with the people. Someone has opened the doors to the Village Archive, but what drives the sleepless out of their houses is not that which was stolen, but that which has escaped. A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr Schramm is discovering more reasons to quit life than smoking. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells - the only problem is that the bells have gone. And Mrs Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. It's the night before the feast in the village of Fürstenfelde (population: an odd number). A dazzling, award-winning new novel by the 'offensively gifted' author of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
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