Before the Feast
β Scribed by Stanisic, Sasa
- Book ID
- 109279358
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781941040393
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It's the night before the feast in the village of FuΒ¨rstenfelde (population: an odd number). The village is asleep. Except for the ferrymanβhe'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 bellsβthe 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.
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