If you take ten dogs and leave them in a wilderness, in a desolate place where no living soul passes, these dogs will become wolves again within a few weeks...

With the inscrutable rotation that a night sunflower would follow, the art of Z.Z. - joyfully verified in this third book of hers, which is also her first novel - proves that one can write as if trying to break the world's spells or as if exorcising their solution.

The pervasive theme of these stories: how one tastes honey on the axe, is also the answer to the narrator's fascinating weakness: unable to endure the withering of silence, she heals her silence with literature.

The reader has the rare fortune to enter a heraldic world, where people exist like dissolved idols, which are intertwined in the narrative fabric in the enigmatic way that a musical phrase unexpectedly infiltrates a painting.

K.P.