Under this cover, stories with happy endings are collected. They are written in the form of musical pieces, so the book’s content resembles a concert program. They share one main, common motive—hope. The heroine of “Orphan Winter” is searching for happiness, the central theme of “Signs of Life” is the confidence that the best is yet to come: it tells how, seemingly lost, closeness with her daughter returns. “Pictures from an Exhibition” speaks about that returning bond; faith in recovery permeates “The Married Wind.”
This book is about how, under the weight of everyday troubles, we often fail to notice happy moments—how we can’t be grateful to fate—how a bright look at the world is able to change it, and that it’s never too late to find such a view: “As long as a person is alive, they have a future. The future is the main sign of life.”