House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
The town of Nowa Ruda and the surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian in the past. Here, in the heart of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary lives are not as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area, she soon discovers that all the locals have their secrets and with the help of Marta, her enigmatic old neighbour, she gathers their stories, disentangling the events of their days from the dreams of their nights. House of Day, House of Night is a wonderfully funny weave of myths and dreams, internet findings, recipes and gossip. A bestseller in Poland, and winner of the prestigious NIKE prize - the country's most important literary prize - its publication brings a new voice to English-speaking readers.
Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 and lives and works in the countryside near Nowa Ruda, south-western Poland. Originally published in 1998, House for the Day, House for the Night is her first work to appear in English. Antonia Lloyd-Jones's translations from Polish include Who was David Weiser? (1991) and Moving House and Other Stories (1994), both by Pawel Huelle, and most recently The Birch Grove and Other Stories by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (2002).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862075146 |
| ISBN 10 | 186207514X |
| Title | House of Day, House of Night |
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2002-07-23 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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