About the book: 2011 / This book was initially published in a tiny edition of 500 copies in a small publishing house that produces arthouse literature. Unexpectedly, it created a literary sensation. Critics who wrote dozens of rave reviews of Shane Jones's instantly iconic novel Staying Over the Winter compare it to the works of Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez and Neil Gaiman. Each copy of the first edition sold for a fantastic price of $250! The initial success was followed by widespread publication in the USA and buzzing international popularity. Almost all European countries have acquired the rights to the novel “We’re Staying for the Winter.” So what attracts this poetic and sad fairy tale for adults and intellectuals, and the most ordinary readers?..