House of Day, House of Night (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810118920 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Four Stars Frank J. Totally different approach to a novel and to the lives she explores.. Mary Beth Jaynes said collector of dreams. I picked up this book at the wonderful Massolit book store in Krakow Poland this summer. It is a very relaxing read, I got lost in the stories and loved the idea of collecting peoples dreams. This is a wonderful book full of short stories wrapped up in a novel.. international literature Sylvia C. Hnat Olga Tokarczuk , the Polish author, writes riveting and fascinating short stories and novels. We are fortunate she has been translated intoEnglish. Her style is innovative. When one reads her work, there is more than a good story. one can find symbolism, poetry, and magical realism.
Each of the stories represents a brick and they interlock to reveal the immense monument that is the town. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic neighbor, the narrator accumulates these stories, tracing the history of Nowa Ruda from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, from the caller who wins the radio quiz every day to the tale of the man who causes international tension when he dies on the border, one leg on the Polish side, the other on the Czech side. Since its original publication in 1998 it has remained a bestseller in Poland. The English translation of the prize-winning international bestsellerWinner of the Gunter Grass PrizeNowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into the area, she and discovers everyone-and everything-has its own story. House of Day, House of Night is the English-language debut of one of Europe's best young writers.. What emerges is the message that the history of any place--no matter how humble--is limitless, that by describing or digging at the roots of a life, a house, or a neighborhood, one can see all the c
"A delight to read--wonderfully inventive and by turns comic, tragic and wise. She tells her stories with a natural fluency that easily accommodates the hopes, drudgery and absurdities of the world she is describing. Real lives mingle with the imagined, dreams with day, past with present in an entirely plausible way." --The Observer. Tokarczuk's prose is simple and unadorned