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Erzsébet Börcsök's short stories are about a region and its people, a region that no one in our literature has yet depicted. In Erzsébet Börcsök's volume, we encounter the region of the Bega and Karaš rivers and its former life. In this landscape, peculiar people struggled, and peculiar destinies unfolded. The author portrays the events, everyday life, colors, and the idylls and dramas of a bygone era in this world, far from everything, in the back of beyond – exactly as she saw it. Her perspective is unique: she views everything through the eyes of a woman, drawing her themes primarily from the lives of women and families. In her writings, the furrows, the fields, the streets of small towns and villages, the twilight of cool rooms, and the sun-drenched, dusty country roads, the farmsteads, and the clouds come to life.

The author and the people she writes about in her stories are bound to the landscape by indissoluble ties of love and childlike attachment, unable to imagine their lives anywhere else. Man and his environment have become inseparably fused over time. Erzsébet Börcsök speaks in her gentle, feminine voice about these people, whose figures are slowly fading into the past and oblivion.