About the book: year / This story happened a long time ago, so long ago that there are no witnesses left. What witnesses! The story itself, retold a thousand times and overgrown with a network of speculation and gossip, turned into an implausible fairy tale, with which village grandmothers always loved to amuse their little grandchildren. So it reached me in such a form that it’s hard to believe that something like this could actually happen. Meanwhile, incredible things were happening, and only a knowledgeable person is able to understand all the intricacies. So we'll try…