Early sorrows
Subtitle: for children and sensitive readers
By: Danilo Kis ; translated from the Serbian by Michael Henry Heim.
Contributors: Heim, Michael Henry.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Kiš, Danilo, 1935- -- Childhood and youth.; Authors, Serbian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: Early Sorrows centers on Andreas Sam, a highly intelligent boy whose life at first seems secure. His mother and sister dote on him; he excels at school; when he is hired out as a cowherd to help with the family's finances, he reads the day away in the company of his best friend, the dog. He can only sense that terrible things may be going on in the world.

Soon soldiers are marching down the road, and then one day, many people from the village are herded together and taken away, among them, his father, the dreamer.