Letters from the Balamut Islands

The sea was protecting and defending the Balamut Islands, protected and happy. People lived here in joy and peace, in a fret with land, sea waters and with each other. Until the news has scattered: it turns out that in the bowels of the island there are full of gold ...
before you is a poetic, deep, cheerful and sad story, as is always the case with Jacques Prevr. The irony is woven in it with sadness, happiness with grief is just like in life, even if this is just a fairy tale inspired by sea winds brought from the Balamut Islands.
This amazing book by Jacques Perer (1900-1977), an outstanding French poet, writer, playwright, first published in his homeland in 1952, with the wonderful illustrations of Andre Francois, which are reproduced in this edition.
In Russian - for the first time