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Sometimes we do not realise how silly we are until we leave our normal environment. This is what happens to our curious hero, a bird who will undertake the most wonderful journey in the world. The journey from ignorance to wisdom.

Months after discovering her boyfriend's infidelity, Elva is overcome by a deep depression. On the eve of Saint John's day, the night of wishes, she shuts herself up at home to drown her sorrows and reads that her ex is going to get married that weekend. That night an ancient comet will leave a trail of shooting stars in its wake, ready to grant wishes.

The novel describes the last twenty-four hours of Walter Benjamin in the border town of Port-Bou before he committed suicide on 26th September 1940.

Finally, one evening, one of the eggshells began to crack, and the little heads of the newborn ducklings appeared. How beautiful they were with their soft golden feathers! But, suddenly, out of the biggest egg came the great big head of a very different duckling…