“Near the Jacob’s Well” is a novel about an ethnic group, a people, human beings, and the real or imaginary dimensions in which a person can exist. The book is written in the genre of magical realism. It does not have a single main character. Its characters are different parts of one whole, each with their unique stories and most sacred feelings. Why does a person come into this world? What is their burden or experience as an individual? How does each person search for their path — up to death and even beyond it — since in this novel, some remain alive even after death? The story takes place in an imaginary country and an invented time. The book tells the story of a small nation that, after an invasion by conquerors, is split in two: those who are exiled to another place and those who remain in their homeland. The divided population becomes estranged from one another, forgetting each other. The struggle for survival, love, revenge, and dreams — these are the themes of the novel. But what unites the characters most of all is a shared quality: they seem quiet, left alone with themselves and unnoticed — yet each of them has a unique and very loud story to tell.