Dubravka Ugresic

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Übersetzer: Elias-Bursac, Ellen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg," internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother's final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who's given up on love, and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women's fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a brilliantly postmodern retelling of an ancient myth that is infused with humanity and the joy of storytelling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Us
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780802145208
• ISBN-10: 0802145205
• Artikelnr.: 30886798

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