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A joyful Easter present. From the story So tender was Suleyken This story about uncouth people and an uncouth meal from the recollections of Suleyken conjures up a lively Easter atmosphere.
A crook from Masuria decides to celebrate Easter by entertaining his friends to a meal. He goes to the market with his three teenage sons. Full of peasant cunning but not without charm the trio under their father’s guidance steal what they can: fish, ham and wine. But when it comes to inviting the guests most of the villagers have other engagements and only the fishwife, the ham-seller and the innkeeper accept … the outcome is predictable.
But a little lamb appears in the meadow like an Easter miracle in the middle of the tumult and all the excitement focuses on it. Full of the spirit of Easter peace they finally realise that after all everyone at the Easter party has found something to his taste – and that that is really not an easy thing to achieve.
About the author:
Siegfried Lenz, born in Lyck in East Prussia in 1926, is one of the most important and widely-read writers in post-war and present-day literature. His works have been published since 1951 (Es waren Habichte in der Luft - There were Hawks in the Air) by Hoffmann und Campe and awarded numerous prizes, including the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt-am-Main and the German Booksellers’ Peace Prize. His most recent novel Schweigeminute (A Minute’s Silence) is a longtime bestseller. It has sold 350.000 copies and rights have been sold to a large number of foreign publishers.
Jacky Gleich has illustrated over 60 books, including works by Günter Grass, Franz Fühmann and James Krüss, and has won a number of prizes, among them the prize for young people’s literature in German. She lives with her husband and four children on a farm in Mecklenburg. |
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