Jõululaupäev : Nõmme 1970

"Christmas Eve" by Holger Kaints is an accurate and detailed description of a 13-year-old boy's Christmas Eve in 1970 on Nõmme. In a sensitive style, the short novel tenderly and touchingly describes the Christmas customs of three different generations of one family at a time when celebrating church holidays together as a family could attract unpleasant attention. Clothes, Christmas dishes, food dishes, public transport, medicines - the entire situation is checked and in place at Kaints down to the last detail.

The story is permeated by the atmosphere of festivity, anticipation, and exceptionality characteristic of Christmas Day in the midst of an official everyday, dusty, and rather spiritually crushing era. A short novel with a refined style does not lack a gentle, somewhat enigmatic intrigue.