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Synopsis
It's the night before the feast in the village of Fürstenfelde (population: an odd number). 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 smoking.
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. Old stories, myths and fairy tales are wandering about the streets with the people. 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. They all want to bring something to a close, in this night before the feast.
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'A brilliant, quirky entertainment' Kirkus
'A book like few others... a work of art' Die Zeit
'Highly entertaining and full of chutzpah' Die Welt
'Episodic, impressionistic and whimsical... clever and funny' Guardian
'Wild, nonchalant, funny... a great, sad joy'Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
'Switching among styles with a dancing virtuosity... Stani ic 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
'Like a Shakespearean comedy... reminded me of nothing so much as A Midsummer Night s Dream filtered through the uncanny lens of Welcome to Night Vale'Elle Thinks
'Offensively gifted... Stanisic [is] some kind of freak genius' --Irish Examiner
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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. Before the Feast, his second novel, was a bestseller in Germany and won the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize; his award-winning debut How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone has been translated into 30 languages, and is also published by Pushkin Press.
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- PublisherPushkin Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1782271295
- ISBN 13 9781782271291
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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