Year of Lavina: Giovanni Orelli

Winter, a tiny village in the Alps is covered with snow: the snow goes without ceasing, it knocked out all the surroundings, marked at home, roads, fields. An avalanche is about to break from the mountain, and then imminent death will be waiting for the inhabitants. To move an avalanche, a slight blow of a breeze or careless shout is enough. People are locked in the village, and it seems that life has froze there, only snow remained – on the roofs, on the streets, in conversations and in prayers. The world was closed, came down to a handful of neighbors and several kitchens, where housewives are still brewing coffee.
What is happening in this world? What do people do, what do they think about? What are their desires? And, most importantly, do they want to leave their own places for the sake of escape from an avalanche? After all, it turns out that parting with a village buried under the snow and a meeting with a restless city bring not only joy, but also pain.
“The Year of the avalanche is among the very rare books: on the one hand, the author seeks to please the reader, although he pretends to neglect the reader’s opinion …

Author
Orelli Giovanni
Editor
Pole O.
Translator
Kharitonov L.A.
Publisher
Text, 2012
Series
The first row