«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 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 lives of two little residents of the bay of Shchepki-Matilda — nine-year-old Trille, from whose perspective the narration is conducted, and his neighbor and classmate Lena — an inconceivable number of events and adventures fit in — amusing, touching, dangerous...
Idyllic life in a Norwegian farmstead is disrupted — but not destroyed — by dramatic circumstances.
But friendship, of course, proves to be stronger and helps to overcome the loss of a loved one, separation, family troubles!