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Is it worth going beyond the ordinary? Perhaps it is better to stay on your cosy island until the end and not make any advances? Belgian writer Caroline Lamarche reflects on these questions in her new collection of short stories, The Lawn at the Edge of the Forest, which won the prestigious Prix de Goncourt for short stories in 2019.

The protagonist of each story is faced with something that goes beyond the boundaries of ordinary human life. And it is mainly nature that pushes them to do so - a forest, a meadow, an animal, a bird, an insect, etc. As in her first collection of short stories "The Day of the Dog", Carolyn Lamarche encourages her characters to think about the main thing: how to live on? How to take a difficult step? Fascinating deep prose, in which you can feel the aroma of the forest thicket and hear birds singing.