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Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
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Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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House
of
day
,
house
of
night
/
Olga
Tokarczuk
; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
by
Tokarczuk
,
Olga
,
1962-
Northwestern University Press, 2003.
Call #:
FICTION TOK
Subjects
Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Series
Writings from an unbound Europe.
ISBN:
9780810118928 (trade pbk)
Uniform title:
Dom dzienny, dom nocny. English
Description:
293 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Granta, 2002.
Translated from the Polish.
Summary:
"Nowa 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. 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. Each of the stories represents a brick and they interlock to reveal the immense monument that is the town. 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 connections, not only with one's self and one's dreams but also with all of the universe."--Amazon.com.
Awards:
Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike) for Audience, 1999.
Winner of the Gunter Grass Prize.
Genre:
Magic realism (Literature)
Literary fiction.
Polish fiction -- Translations into English.
Other authors:
Lloyd-Jones, Antonia.
Holds:
2
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