About the book: year / Jacobina looks in surprise at the speaker - he turns out to be a blond boy with palms stained with ink. This boy is several years older than her, he is dressed not at all as festively as she is - in a swamp-colored suit made of coarse fabric, with only a few stripes of simple embroidery on the sleeves and collar. He has the simplest boots on his feet, and his hair is disheveled as if he had never handled a comb.