Mein erstaunlicher Hang zu Fehltritten

The bestseller from Italy and winner of the renowned "Premio Campiello".In a cool winter night, amidst trees and hills, a stone marten is born together with its siblings. The father was killed, the mother has to fend for the cubs alone. Archy is weak, so he is sold by his mother to an old fox for one and a half hens. His new master, Fëdor, lives on a hill and is full of secrets. And he is in possession of a Bible, which he guards like a treasure.The animals in this book can talk, they use plates to eat, they light fires, and yet their existence remains a hard and relentless struggle. Lost loves, the cruelty of the world, the stimulus of ever new adventures define Arcy's life. But the real questions arise for him only when the old fox begins to tell him about the power of letters and teaches him to read and write.Arcy's story is an allegory of our existence. For in the mirror of the animal, human life sometimes becomes much more vivid.