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Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist., Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels., Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time.Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's., From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination.
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'This enchantingly elliptical fiction debut [...] sparkles with a gem-like quality... It is a richly textured portrait of rural life under one of the milder communist regimes... It is refreshing to find a fiction writer so free of stylistic pomp. The full cumulative power of Greg's prose is felt towards the end, as the novel accelerates alongside Wiola's adolescence, until we are swept into the unknown' -- --Guardian
'Entrancing... Greg achieves a form of literary alchemy that mesmerises for its ability to situate us inside a personal landscape where both the eternal past and unfolding present feel as if they can exist simultaneously' --New York Times
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'Entrancing... Greg achieves a form of literary alchemy that mesmerises for its ability to situate us inside a personal landscape where both the eternal past and unfolding present feel as if they can exist simultaneously' --New York Times
WIOLETTA GREG is the author of six volumes of poetry and a novella, Swallowing Mercury, translated here into English for the first time. Her poetry collection, Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance, was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Essex.ELIZA MARCINIAK is an editor and translator. She lives in London.
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- PublisherPortobello Books Ltd
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1846276098
- ISBN 13 9781846276095
- BindingPaperback
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