

Daniel Douglas Wissmann
Tallinn : Sinisukk, 1998
357 p
ISBN : 9985812573
Hardcover, used ex-library book in good condition.
One winter evening, a child is placed in a coffin at the door of Alfred Dillinger's funeral home. A family adopts the boy, who is named Roberto. Thus begins the unusual childhood of a strangely found child. It soon becomes clear that life and death are intricately intertwined. Roberto's life is filled with meetings with various people, dreams, disappointments, and hopes. It is a novel set in a time when there was no place for grand passions. It compellingly balances the tragic and the comedic, romance and absurdity, until it becomes inscrutable where real life ends and illusory life begins.