Before the Feast - Softcover

A book like few others. Politically well-versed and stylistically a work of art.

A brilliant, quirky entertainment.

A village fully in the present, yet rife with legends. In Before The Feast, this villagetells its own story--a novel as compelling multi-voiced chorale put in prose.

Before the Feast is a big book in every sense: it's vibrant, compassionate, and knowing. Stanisic channels an almost reckless energy into a novel that's at once sprawling and controlled.--Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books on the Park

Someone has opened the doors to the VillageArchive, but what drives the sleepless out of their houses is not that which was stolen, but that whichhas escaped. Old stories, myths, and fairy tales arewandering about the streets with the people. Theycome together in a novel about a long night, amosaic of village life, in which the long-establishedand newcomers, the dead and the living, craftsmen,pensioners, and noble robbers in football shirtsbump into each other. They all want to bringsomething to a close, in this night before the feast.