Момичето, което предсказваше миналото

Thirteen linked stories in which children describe the adult world around them, in a village between the peaks of Mogila and Mogilchitsa in the first half of the twentieth century. Boys narrate twelve of them; the last belongs to a nameless girl who knows how old God is and can see across time. The children swim in the river, mow meadows, sell newspapers, keep pigeons and fight with wooden swords, live through first love and the deaths of others, and watch grown-ups they cannot quite understand: a flying uncle, a grandfather defending his honour, a father called the Kaiser, the beautiful Sebile, and old Titanya, who bows to every house of a village about to vanish under a new dam.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

152 pages in the original

First published

2021 by Hermes

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789542621027 (original)