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The Fifth Year
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Through the eyes of a young child, plants, animals and the people around her come to life in dreamlike, lyrical prose. Five-year-old Marili doesn’t know it yet, but grief simmers beneath the slow pace of country living.
A haunting story of a childhood in the Austrian countryside from the author of The Wall
The Fifth Year follows a five-year-old girl, Marili, through each season of a single year on her grandparents’ farm in the mountains of Austria. Her grand-mother is a quiet, melancholic woman; her grandfather, with his calm, cheerful disposition, radiates warmth. Marili’s parents have presumably died in the war, and she is left to discover—with curiosity, wonder, and fear—the beauty and darkness of a quie...