Remy is a young girl who lives in a town that believes in crystal count: that you are born with one-hundred crystals inside and throughout your life, through accidents and illness, your count is depleted until you reach zero. As a city encroaches daily on the village, threatening their antiquated life, and the earth grows warmer, Remy sets out to accomplish something no one else has: to increase her sick mother’s crystal count. An allegory, fable, touching family saga and poetic sci-fi adventure, Shane Jones underlines his reputation as an inspired and unique visionary

A haunting, enigmatic, Kafkaesque modern fairytale, steeped in visual imagery and consolingly lyrical prose. The Times February is persecuting the townspeople. It has been winter for more than three hundred days. All forms of flight are banned and the children have started to disappear, taken from their beds in the middle of the night. The priests hang ominous sheets of parchment on the trees, signed "February". And somewhere on the outskirts of the town lives February himself, with the girl who smells of honey and smoke… In short bursts of intensely poetic language, this beautifully strange and otherworldly first novel tells the story of the people in the town and their efforts to combat the mysterious spectre of February. Steeped in visual imagery, this is a hauntingly enigmatic modern fairy tale in which nothing is as it seems

Эта книга поначалу была издана крошечным тиражом в 500 экземпляров в маленьком издательстве, занимающемся выпуском артхаусной литературы. Неожиданно она произвела литературный фурор. Критики, написавшие десятки восторженных рецензий на мгновенно ставший культовым роман Шейна Джонса «Остаемся зимовать», сравнивают его с произведениями Итало Кальвино, Габриэля Гарсиа Маркеса и Нила Геймана. Каждая копия первого издания продавалась по фантастической цене — 250 долларов! За первым успехом последовала широкая публикация в США и шумная международная популярность. Права на роман «Остаемся зимовать» приобрели практически все европейские страны. Так чем же привлекает эта поэтичная и печальная сказка для взрослых и интеллектуалов, и самых обычных читателей?