Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (Myths) - Hardcover

Ugresic, Dubravka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802119271 ISBN 13: 9780802119278

Publisher: Grove Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Presents a post modern retelling of a Slavic myth through the stories of a writer who grants her mother's final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who has given up on love and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing.

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Review:

"Ugrasic's retelling may be blisteringly postmodern in its execution but at its heart is a human warmth and even a silliness that infuses it with the sweet magic of storytelling." (Melissa Katsoulis The Times)

"Packed with intellectual surprises and emotional revelations" (Tina Jackson The Metro)

"The message that old crones are the product of "long-lived, labyrinthine, fertile, profoundly misogynistic but also cathartic work of the imagination" is expressed with humour, eloquence and anger." (Alyssa McDonald New Statesman)

"Ugresic has a unique tone of voice, a madcap wit and a lovely sense of the absurd. Ingenious." (Marina Warner)

"She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." (Susan Sontag)

"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unfazed in the face of the little dictators who have torn apart her former country. Orwell would be proud." (Timothy Garton-Ash on THE MINISTRY OF PAIN)

"Contains some of the most profound reflections on culture, memory and madness you wiill ever read." (Carole Angier on THE MINISTRY OF PAIN Independent)

Book Description:

Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga -one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0802119271
• ISBN 13: 9780802119278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 327