They come together in a novel about a long night, a mosaic of village life, in which the long-established and newcomers, the dead and the living, craftsmen, pensioners, and noble robbers in football shirts bump into each other. Old stories, myths, and fairy tales are wandering about the streets with the people. Someone has opened the doors to the Village Archive, but what drives the sleepless out of their houses is not that which was stolen, but that which has escaped. Schramm is discovering more reasons to quit life than to quit smoking. A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells-the only problem is that the bells have gone.
Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. It's the night before the feast in the village of Fu¨rstenfelde (population: an odd number).
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