Brian Selznick. The Time Keeper (№ 235581)

Plays weird tricks with us.
In life like in an accelerated movie: no time to blink, and the frame with the baby in the cradle was replaced by the scene of the funeral... Someone loses the war, and someone, on the contrary, wins. Like a butterfly hatching from a cocoon, the people of the little men turn into big uncles and aunts.