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The main geographical topos in which most of the events of Zalzi Landman's book take place is Eastern Galicia, and in particular Zhovkva, the writer's hometown, and the main collective character is her immediate family: her father and mother, grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins, friends, and acquaintances. They are the narrators or protagonists of the endless stories that form the narrative space of these memories. And yet there are also dozens of other characters, both episodic and incidental: Polish landlords, Ukrainian peasants, Hasidic prodigies, Austrian hussars, Russian Cossacks, Jewish merchants, tenants, tavern keepers, shadchens (marriage brokers), beggars, city lunatics, priests, nuns, nannies, and maids, etc.

An authentic panorama of Eastern Galicia in the early 20th century, with all its diversity, weekdays and holidays, social contrasts and historical cataclysms, once again appears in colourful detail under the pen of a Swiss writer.