Kinship is not an idyll. Naive is the one who believed that the child is naive; childish is the one who approaches it in that way. In Prezihov Voranc's eleven childhood stories, told with intensity and subtlety, children do not appear as little adults; rather, they are (still) fully human. Experiences and events, early struggles, harsh reprimands, but also warmth and affection in the barren Alpine slopes, on the farm, at the Keuschlerhof, on the edge of the village, and on the way to the city - all perceived through a child's perspective. It is not a wise search for lost childhood, nor a sought-after memory, but simply a life that has been preserved. "Lily of the Valley" - the last book by Prezihov Voranc.