In a forgotten Armenian village lost on the Manish Kar mountain top, the remaining inhabitants – a handful of elderly people – cling to their vanishing way of life. Part weirdoes, part naggers, their lives intertwined by love, war, vengeance, and forgiveness, they are ready to embrace the village’s imminent ending.

Among the villagers is Anatolia, the village librarian, a resilient survivor of a devastating famine, who endured the brutal attacks of her husband. Vasily, a widowed blacksmith, carries the weight of losing three sons and his younger brother during World War II. Yasaman, Anatolia's neighbor and friend, serves as the village healer, offering herbal remedies to the ailing residents.

Through the mundane yet captivating routines of the elderly inhabitants – baking baklava, tending crops, and carrying out household chores – readers become immersed in their life stories, witnessing the slow-paced yet entrancing fable of a village on the verge of its inevitable demise.

However, everything changes when Anatolia, aged 58, finds herself confronted with a startling revelation. As she notices signs of bleeding, she believes her time is coming to an end. Faced with the imminent death, she hesitates to reject the proposal of a local blacksmith, a widower who has offered his companionship during her dwindling days in this world. Despite her reluctance they slowly grow closer – old neighbors, they start to discover new things about each other, until one day a true miracle happens – Anatolia realizes she bears a child, something that shakes the foundations of their reality and the whole community.

With its striking beauty, visual imagery, and underlying melancholy, Narine Abgaryan's Three Apples Fell from the Sky echoes the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.