"In his humble way, Hawthorne succeeded in fulfilling the dream of all parents: to give his child eternal life." Paul Auster On July 28, 1851, Sophia, the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with their daughters Una and Rose, left their home in western Massachusetts to visit relatives in Boston. For the next twenty days, Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian spend their time at the country house with Bunny, their pet rabbit. Each day begins early and is spent wandering to the lake and jumping from stone to stone, hiking in the neighborhood and battling armies of thorns. Here and there they are visited by neighbors, and on several occasions their admiring friend, Herman Melville, comes to talk "about time and eternity, about matters of this world and the next, about books, about publishers, about all possible and impossible subjects." "Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny" is ostensibly a book in which nothing happens – twenty times. Only a great writer like Hawthorne could turn such a plan into a poetic text, full of humor, beauty, and melancholy. Translated from English: Yoram Neslavsky