A dung beetle flies at dusk. Greepe M.

Unas, Annik and David are the most ordinary children from the Swedish village of Ringaryud. In the summer, they decided to work out and voluntarily watered flowers in the Seander estate, about which everyone in the district knew that an old curse was imposed on him.

Once, following the flight of a dung beetle, the children find a mysterious box with old letters in the house And they recognize the tragic love story of the girl of Emilia and Andreas, a student of Karl Linnaeus, who more than two hundred years ago brought from the expedition the ancient Egyptian statue. Children are trying to find a statue and soon understand that someone is following them. It seems that they have to look into the past and reveal the real crime...

“The dung beetle flies at dusk” is one of the most famous Swedish novels for children. It began with a radio feeding that was such a success in the Scandinavian countries that soon Maria Greepe processed it for the book. Everyone will find something in this story: someone is interested in botany, someone history and philosophy, but to someone human relations.

for secondary school age.