Primeval and Other Times

Tokarczuk, Olga

ISBN 10: 1699167079 / ISBN 13: 9781699167076

Published by Independently published, 2019

Some underlining in text, but not all that much. Covers have minor wear and curl out a bit. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***. Seller Inventory # 004284

Synopsis:

The novel from Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk is set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated by eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, and chronicles the lives of the villagers over the course of the feral 20th century in prose that is forceful, direct, and the stylistic cousin of the magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Told in short bursts of "Time," the narrative takes the form of a stylized fable, an epic allegory about the inexorable grind of time and the clash between modernity (the masculine) and nature (the feminine) in which Poland's tortured political history from 1914 to the contemporary era and the episodic brutality visited on ordinary village life is played out. A novel of universal dimension that does not dwell on the parochial, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1997, which established Tokarczuk as one of the leading voices in Polish letters and has been translated into many languages throughout the world and hailed as a contemporary European classic. As Tokarczuk has said of the novel: "I always wanted to write a book such as this. One that creates and describes a world. It is the story of a world that, like all things living, is born, develops, and then dies." Kitchens, bedrooms, childhood memories, dreams and insomnia, reminiscences, and amnesia — these are part of the existential and acoustic spaces from which the voices of Tokarczuk's tale come, her "boxes in boxes."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Primeval and Other Times
Publisher: Independently published
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fair