The life of Stan Erund, just yesterday an ordinary boy, changed overnight: get up at 6:00 and - fish, fish, fish... Clean it, gut it, roll it into cans. From morning till night. And no holidays. Even escape doesn't save from the nightmare. Stan finds himself at a fair, in a dangerous world of booths and magic, and is already preparing to dive into an aquarium with bloodthirsty piranhas... Where are you going, come to your senses! They will eat you!

'- Do you know what I think?' said Dostoevsky.
- 'I think you've been locked up too long.
You, kid, are ripe. Ready for adventure. Am I right
or wrong?'

David Almond writes about people who are true to themselves and to each other. He is a winner of the Andersen Award, the highest international honor, and the prestigious Whitbread Award. In 2020, Almond will be a guest of honor at the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Congress, which will be held in Moscow. This book was previously published by Samokat in 2016, but has now been published in an updated design.

Author: David Almond