Before the Feast
Description
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 to quit smoking.
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About the Author
Sasa Stanisic was born in Visegrad (Yugoslavia) in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His debut novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, was translated into thirty-one languages; Before the Feast was a bestseller and won the renowned Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Reviews
A brilliant, quirky entertainment.
A village fully in the present, yet rife with legends. In Before The Feast, this villagetells its own story--a novel as compelling multi-voiced chorale put in prose.
Before the Feast is a big book in every sense: it's vibrant, compassionate, and knowing. Stanisic channels an almost reckless energy into a novel that's at once sprawling and controlled.--Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books on the Park
