Божията милост

Short stories, most of them told in the first person by a girl who carries the author's own childhood name, return to a childhood in a small town, often with a child and her grandparents at the centre. Into this seemingly cosy world break the hidden illnesses in her parents' marriage, the shame of relatives, a family member who drinks, a once close friend who hid with you from Russian soldiers in a clay oven and later turns against you, and deaths that must be announced to the family. In one story a girl tells anxious people in a hospital exactly what they need to hear; in another she renames the streets of her town. The title, one name of a healing herb also called snake's milk, sets the tone: for every poison there is a mercy of repentance, forgiveness and love.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

100 pages in the original

First published

2025 by Janet 45

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9786191869770 (original)