num_pages: 128
description: Panturle lives in the village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. He is a huge "When he met a living animal, he looked at it without it was a fox, a hare, or a big snake in the rubble. He did not move; he took his time. He knew that somewhere in a bush there was a wire noose which strangled necks that passed by." Aubignane was a deserted village. That autumn Gaubert the smithy, "a little man all moustache", left; and before the winter was out the well-sinker's widow had left as well.Then only Panturle remained, a man made morose almost to the point of madness by his solitude. He gave up planting and lived off what he could catch. Then out of the blue a woman arrived, someone to live for, someone to till the soil for and plant new seed. Even a village can be raised from the dead.
language: English
title: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
titlecomplete: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
genres: Classics, Roman, European Literature, Novella, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 2057
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: награда "Пловдив"
category: Художествен превод
publisher: Harvill Press