Hidden Cities 2
"In Raissa, life is not happy. People wring their hands as they walk in the streets curse the crying children, lean on the railings over the river and press their fists to their temples. In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins(...) Inside the houses it is worse, and you do not have to enter to learn this: in the summer the windows resound with quarrels and broken dishes. (...)Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unawar...