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. We learn about the town, its residents, and its ghosts over the course of a single night, the eve of the titular Feast, and our introduction to the current. Schramm is discovering more reasons to quit life than to quit smoking. Saa Stanii's Before the Feast is a phantasmagoric journey through the history of Frstenfelde, an East German town which has had a surprisingly large number of residents named Anna. Frstenfelde is a sleepy little burg somewhere down along the German-Polish border, territory. In his sophomore novel, Bosnian-born writer Staniic (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, 2008) meditates on history, real and counterfactual. Condition: New Quantity: 2 available Price: £22.29 Buy it now Add to basket Watch this item Breathe easy. by Saa Staniic translated by Anthea Bell RELEASE DATE: June 14, 2016. A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr. Before The Fixed Stanisic, Sasa Beech Be the first to write a review. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells-the only problem is that the bells have gone. 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 Fu¨rstenfelde (population: an odd number).

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