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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781847670663
RRP: £14.99
PAGES: 352
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 21, 2009
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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Dubravka Ugresic
Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. But what does she have to do with a writer’s journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on behalf of her mother? Or with a trio of old women who decide to spend a week together at a hotel spa? Startlingly original, “Baba Yaga Laid an Egg” takes a traditional myth and spins it afresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets, storytelling and love.
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'She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished.' Susan Sontag
Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic was born in 1949 in Yugoslavia. She has published both novels and books of essays. Her books have been translated into more then twenty languages and she has received several major European literary awards. She is now based in Amsterdam.