A poignant story about a 12-year-old boy living in a world that has suffered an environmental disaster. The book is about a difficult choice, friendship, hope and a miracle - different for each hero.
Is it possible to sacrifice someone for a higher purpose? Sacrificing a bug to save a sick girl? And if this beetle is the only form of life after an ecological catastrophe? How to make the right choice, how to remain human in a strange closed world?
These are the questions to be answered by 12-year-old Dean. He lives with his parents in a small village of the Northern Circle, in a world where a catastrophe happened many centuries ago, and the inhabitants still suffer from depriving disease. There is poisonous pink snow, deadly acid streaks, and there are Plagues flying in the air, which Dean's mother can hear. But in this dangerous world there is a place for a miracle. It's just a miracle for everyone.
A poignant story about difficult choices, friendship, destiny, illness that affects everyone, and hope is relevant to us now more than ever.
The closed world of the Northern Circle, the danger of getting infected and the choice - to help yourself or others, to sacrifice yourself or others? Julia Kuznetsova poses important questions to the reader, to which he will have to look for answers on his own.
Anastasia Balatenysheva's illustrations, accurate and poignant, reveal a deep meaning in the text and refer to myths and legends.
Author: Yulia Kuznetsova
Illustrations: Anastasia Balatenysheva
Pages: 200 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 212x148x19 mm
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