Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta

von Aglaja Veteranyi

200 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Dalkey Archive Press
• ISBN: 9781564786869
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2012
• Größe: 219 x 151 mm
• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Übersetzung: Vincent Kling