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While cleaning a church, the retired cleaner Frančiška Kavka finds three little fingers that have fallen off a statue of an angel and reports them to Father Virgil. Tests show they are real children's fingers, and the media pounce. Frančiška shuts herself away, with only her neighbour, a student called Matej, for company, until she is found badly wounded and a police inspector runs into a dead end. The novel then moves to 1771, when a beautiful village girl, Agata, washing laundry at a warm spring during a bitter winter, sees in the water the reflection of a young man: Matej. Across centuries, the Church, the former secret police and heavenly and hellish envoys all have a stake in these hidden angels.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

231 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 1771; 1998–2006

First published

2004 by Goga

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9789616421249 (original)

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