The Birds of Verhovina

Trains reach Verhovina unreliably; the timetable has been abolished. Adam, the foster son of Brigadier Anatol Korkodus, waits at the run-down station for Daniel Vangyeluk, a barefoot boy transferred from a reformatory. Why is Korkodus later arrested? Why have the birds disappeared from the area? And what is the secret of Eronim Mox's fabulous cookbook? Subtitled "variations on the end of days", the novel is built up like a panorama from small story elements and narrative mosaics, at the centre of an eternal periphery on the edge of civilisation, where human contact freezes and thaws, culture decays into nature and silence becomes eloquent.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

255 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2011 by Magvető

Author's age

75 when first published

ISBN

9789631428735 (original)

9781914990038 (Jantar Publishing, United Kingdom)

9781914990045 (Jantar Publishing, United Kingdom)