Tania Skarynkina

A Large Czesław Miłosz With a Dash of Elvis Presley

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Выдавецтва Scotland Street Press
Вокладка Мяккая
Мова English
Пераклад Jim Dingley
Год выдання 2018
Старонак 208
Фармат 13x20 см
ISBN 9781910895221

Апісанне

Tania Skarynkina’s “A Large Czeslaw Milosz with a Dash of Elvis Presley” is a dazzling collection of essays and stories full of wit, intimacy, and imagination. From musings over Karelian cranberries to an unfinished pilgrimage to meet Milosz in Krakow, Skarynkina blends the ordinary and the extraordinary with a voice both playful and profound. Translated into English by Jim Dingley, the book earned the English PEN Award in 2018, bringing Belarusian literature to new audiences with charm and originality.

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Sitting by her window with a glass of cranberries in sugar syrup bought from a woman in the market who assured her they came from Karelia, she muses “Perhaps they have some other kind of effect when you eat them. Spiritual maybe? So I eat and wait for the Karelian cranberries to work their magic on me.” Skarynkina is impelled to spend the last of her money on a trip to Krakow to meet Czeslaw Milosz but never finds his address, so he remains to her an idol like Elvis Presley dressed in gold lame. Each story has a charm and imaginative flight of its own.

About the Author

Tania Skarynkina was born in 1969 in Smarhon, Belarus. She worked as a postwoman, journalist, and illustrator. She writes poetry in Russian and essays in Belarusian. Her works have been translated into English, Polish, Czech and Hebrew. Her collection of stories, A Large Czeslaw Milosz with a Dash of Elvis Presley, which was awarded the English PEN Award in 2018.