Dubravka Ugresic

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Übersetzung: Elias-Bursac, Ellen; Hawkesworth, Celia; Thompson, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga - one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology

Produktdetails

• Myths
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781847673060
• ISBN-10: 1847673066
• Artikelnr.: 27874392

Autorenporträt

Dubravka Ugresic was born in 1949 in Yugoslavia. She has published both novels and books of essays. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages and she has received several major European literary awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, known as the 'American Nobel', in 2016. She was also a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2009. She is now based in Amsterdam.

Rezensionen

Ugrasic's retelling may be blisteringly postmodern in its execution but at its heart is a human warmth and even a silliness that infuses it with the sweet magic of storytelling. Melissa Katsoulis The Times