Ballerina, ballerina. Sosich M.

This novel is about the life of one Slovenian family on the outskirts of Italy. The ballerina - “God's man” - is incapable of taking care of himself from birth, her world is limited by the kitchen, where relatives gather. Through the personal sensations of the heroine and the stories of others, the atmosphere of the twentieth century was transmitted: from the interwar period to the first steps in the conquest of the cosmos. But all this is just a pale background for deep, truly human feelings - dream, fear, love, pain and joy for the neighbor.