Publisher: Eesti Raamat
City: Tallinn
Year: 1966
Pages: 452
Condition: missing dust jacket, contents present and legible
Dimensions: standard format, hardcover
This edition is already the fourth printing, which most clearly characterizes the popularity of the work among a wide range of readers. The work has also found its way to the reading tables of the fraternal peoples.
And yet Mare could not believe that she had leprosy.
But Sander believed. And Mare knew that if Sander's belief was correct, then Sander would really put her and all four children in a boat, sail out into the open sea and let the wind turn the boat over with full sail. It was scary to rot alive in Vatkus without benefiting anyone, but ... it was even scarier to think about such a death of the children! That Sander himself was willing to come to his death with him, he could still understand, because if Sander had stayed in the leper, she, Sander's wife, might also have agreed to go with Sander anywhere. But to send the children to death...