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In an imaginary small town in Germany, sometime in the Romantic period, a Hungarian mermaid is delivered on misty late-autumn days. The creature escapes and falls into a strange love with Jakab, son of a charcoal burner who now only digs pits. The count's men regularly throw stones that hit people, houses and animals, and the honest citizens try to live and prosper at the price of all kinds of compromises, while everyone looks for the mermaid. In linked stories that echo Heinrich von Kleist, the book is about power and the individual, humiliation, civil courage, hypocrisy and the loss of normality.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

204 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, Romantic era

First published

2019 by Magvető

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789631439496 (original)