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A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.
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Why the child is cooking in the polenta, Aglaja Veteranyi
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- Why the child is cooking in the polenta
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Aglaja Veteranyi
- Verlag
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1564786862
- ISBN13
- 9781564786869
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Autobiografien & Memoiren, 20. Jahrhundert, Tod, Magischer Realismus, Kindheit, Autobiografische Romane, Migration, Emigration, Rumänien, Rumänische Literatur, Entfremdung
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2005
- Originaltitel
- Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
- Bewertung
- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.