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Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
Longlisted for the German Book Prize
It's the evening before the feast in the village of Fürstenfelde (population: declining), but not everyone is asleep. The local artist, wearing an evening dress and gum-boots, goes down to the lake under cover of darkness. The village archivist is kept awake by ancient tales that threaten to take on a life of their own. A retired lieutenant-colonel weighs his pistol, and his future, in his hand. And eighteen-year-old Anna, namesake of the Feast, prepares to take her place in tomorrow's festival of drinking and dancing, eating and burning.
On this night of misdeeds and mischief, they are joined by a dead ferryman, a hapless bellringer, two robbers in football shirts and a vixen on the hunt as the fantastic, the menacing, and the inexplicable collide in the most surprising ways.
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313p paperback, illustrated cover, clean pages, a firm copy, in excellent condition, translated by Anthea Bell, like new
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'Episodic, impressionistic and whimsical... clever and funny' -- Guardian
'Switching among styles with a dancing virtuosity, Stanisic knits a dozen characters into a multi-stranded tissue of gossip, myth and memory... [layering] tales from past and present into a late-summer night's dream... Stanisic makes a dream team with Anthea Bell, who translates with a pitch-perfect ear for every twist and frisk of his German... its sheer versatility of voice and multiplicity of viewpoint mean that this vigil never drags' -- Independent
'Exceptional... cleverly done, and so mesmerising from the off... beautifully written... thought-provoking and energetic' -- Big Issue
'In its combination of the fantastic, the menacing and the inexplicable, it reminded me of nothing so much as A Midsummer Night's Dream filtered through the uncanny lens of Welcome to Night Vale' -- Elle Thinks
'The predominant tone is humorous... kindly, joyful and pointing-out-the-absurd-humour... Pushkin Press has struck gold' -- WeLoveThisBook
'A vivid portrait of a day in the life of an ever-changing German village... bewitching... a joy to read' -- RivetingReviews
'Mesmerising' --Bookanista
'Switching among styles with a dancing virtuosity, Stanisic knits a dozen characters into a multi-stranded tissue of gossip, myth and memory... [layering] tales from past and present into a late-summer night's dream... Stanisic makes a dream team with Anthea Bell, who translates with a pitch-perfect ear for every twist and frisk of his German... its sheer versatility of voice and multiplicity of viewpoint mean that this vigil never drags' -- Independent
'Exceptional... cleverly done, and so mesmerising from the off... beautifully written... thought-provoking and energetic' -- Big Issue
'In its combination of the fantastic, the menacing and the inexplicable, it reminded me of nothing so much as A Midsummer Night's Dream filtered through the uncanny lens of Welcome to Night Vale' -- Elle Thinks
'The predominant tone is humorous... kindly, joyful and pointing-out-the-absurd-humour... Pushkin Press has struck gold' -- WeLoveThisBook
'A vivid portrait of a day in the life of an ever-changing German village... bewitching... a joy to read' -- RivetingReviews
'Mesmerising' --Bookanista
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- PublisherPushkin Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1782271759
- ISBN 13 9781782271758
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- Number of pages320
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