Albert Wass: The Funtinel Witch

I had the opportunity to regularly experience simple mountain everyday life: the beauty and fragrance of the woods almost blend daily chores into harmony, work ties us to the nature. I always feel the taste of this life in my mouth when I read Albert Wass's alp-based stories and I think that it is him who is particularly able to acquaint this life with others. But this is only the background note, the rhytm of the novel. The story above this frame looks upon life with an indescribable naturalness, presenting the good and the bad, finely and credibly weaving into the plot the local witch-beliefs. It contains an important message for regions home to more nationalities: based on their nature, people relate to each other first of all as people, well or crookedly, as they can. I had the same experience, in untouched alps human relationships are formed by the commonness of everyday life, and not artificial ideologies.
I'm sorry that the works of Wass are rarely translated into other languages, this particular book exists only in Hungarian.