«Waffle Heart» — the literary debut of young Norwegian writer Maria Parr.
When the book first appeared in Norway, critics unanimously called her the new Astrid Lindgren — for her humor and ability to tell children stories about themselves in a way they would like to read.
The book was immediately translated into French, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, German, and Russian.
In the year of the life of two little residents of the cove of Shchepki-Matilda — nine-year-old Trille, from whose perspective the story is narrated, and his neighbor and classmate Lena — an unimaginable number of events and adventures are packed in — amusing, touching, dangerous...
The idyllic life on a Norwegian farm is disrupted — but not destroyed — by dramatic circumstances.
But friendship, of course, turns out to be stronger and helps to overcome the loss of a loved one, separation, family troubles!