Baba Yaga Laid an Egg |
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| Author:
| Ugresic, Dubravka |
| Translator:
| Elias-Bursac, Ellen
Hawkesworth, Celia
Thompson, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8021-1927-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2010 |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $23.00 |
Book Description:
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According to Russian myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and who kidnaps small children. In
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying...
More DescriptionAccording to Russian myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and who kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying 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's given up on love, and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women's fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a brilliantly postmodern retelling of an ancient myth that is infused with "a human warmth . . . [and] the sweet magic of storytelling"(Times Saturday Review).