Bangsi, A Bear to Love

Little bear Bangsi loses his mother. Without her, he feels like a speck of dust in the vastness. Luckily, he is taken in by the village of Grimura. How do they know he is a Bear to Love? No one knows, but they take care of him—and he takes care of them. And so everyone turns out to be useful to everyone else in some way. Only the absence of his mother never stops hurting.

In this moving story, the little bear manages to find warmth and goodness in people. In fact, the words “human” and “animal” lose their conventional meanings here. And that is a very good thing. Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki returns with Bangsi to the finest traditions of writing for children.

Olga Tokarczuk