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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
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- Publicado en
- 2012
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- Título
- Why the child is cooking in the polenta
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Aglaja Veteranyi
- Editorial
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publicado en
- 2012
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1564786862
- ISBN13
- 9781564786869
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Historias reales, Biografías, Historia, Ficción contemporánea, Autobiografías y memorias, Familia, Siglo XX, Muerte, Realismo mágico, Infancia, Novelas autobiográficas, Migración, Emigración, Rumanía, Literatura rumana, Alienación
- Primera publicación
- 2005
- Título original
- Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
- Calificación
- 4,05 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.