Description

An intellectual city-dweller, worn down by the drudgery and shallow social rituals of office life, turns his back on modernism and flees to the countryside in search of purpose. Set between the wars somewhere in Europe, this is the story of a man chasing an idealised, philosophically-charged vision of rural simplicity — one built quietly over a lifetime of books, pictures, and long walks through nature.

But the peasant life he’s dreamed of proves far from simple, and his encounters with the rural folk — and their children — reveal that a return to the soil demands more than good intentions.

A slim, unsettling novella from Mount Abraxas Press, wrapped in a woodcut cover by Matus Durcik