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Swallowing Mercury

Swallowing Mercury

Greg, Wioletta
Marciniak, Eliza

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Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 194549204X
ISBN13: 9781945492044
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: Sep 12 2017
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize

Achieves a form of literary alchemy that mesmerizes.--The New York Times

In this celebrated debut from prize-winning poet Wioletta Greg, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit, agricultural community in 1980s Poland. Her memories are precise, intense, distinctive, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker's house, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet's touch, Wioletta Greg's debut animates the strange wonders of growing up.

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