De trein naar Pavlovsk en Oostvoorne

These stories come from a grandfather born in Russia, as heard by his grandson or as he might have told them. A magician is kept prisoner outside St Petersburg because of one remarkable trick involving a mouse and an elephant; a small witch rides her broom into a boy's head; there are visits to the Dvizhenie circus, to Mr Stechler, who devised faiths, and to rope dancers who displeased the emperor. Relatives, rituals and maxims follow, now comic, now wistful, now dark when the old man stops short of what he remembers.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

188 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Russia

First published

2000 by Querido

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789021484518 (original)