Ajaratta rehvi peal - Hinge Kaljund

The novel about an ordinary Estonian peasant family that lived in the village of Karus in Virumaa, begins in the final years of the Republic of Estonia, 1938, when a boy named Enn was born to the Palupuude family. With pleasant humor, the author writes about the life of a farmer in the final years of the Republic of Estonia: farm work, rural romance... but then everything changes: the base agreement with Russia, the outbreak of the great war, the terrible year 1941. Russian occupation and communist crimes. This family also had to drink the bitter cup of deportation to the bottom, miraculously only young Enn was left behind from the deportation train. On the example of the Palupuude family, the tragic history of the Estonian nation unfolds in front of us: ignorance of the fate of the deportees, the incredible travesties accompanying the establishment of collective farms... all seen through the eyes of simple rural people, from the grassroots level. But the years pass and the end of the Soviet empire is within reach. Big changes also take place in the main character's private life: Enn, a friendly country man with a poetic soul, who loves children, animals and flowers, meets Virve, a cold-hearted freedom fighter with a practical mind at the university...