![]() 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. 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. A retired lieutenant-colonel weighs his pistol, and his future, in his hand. The village archivist is kept awake by ancient tales that threaten to take on a life of their own. ![]() The local artist, wearing an evening dress and gum-boots, goes down to the lake under cover of darkness. ![]() Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize Longlisted for the German Book Prize It's the evening before the feast in the village of Furstenfelde (population: declining), but not everyone is asleep. ![]()
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