Boat Number Five

di Monika Kompanikova (Autore)

Janet Livingstone (Traduttore)

Seagull Books London Ltd, 2022

The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature, promiscuous mother and made to care for her cantankerous dying grandmother, twelve-year-old Jarka is left to fend for herself in the social vacuum of a post-communist concrete apartment-block jungle in Bratislava, Slovakia. She spends her days roaming the streets and daydreaming in the only place she feels safe: a small garden inherited from her grandfather. One day, on her way to the garden, she stops at a suburban railway station and impulsively abducts twin babies. Jarka teeters on the edge of disaster, and while struggling to care for the babies, she discovers herself. With a vivid and unapologetic eye, Monika Kompanikova captures the universal quest for genuine human relationships amid the emptiness and ache of post-communist Europe. Boat Number Five, which was adapted into an award-winning Slovak film, is the first of two books that launch Seagull's much-anticipated Slovak List.

• Autore: Monika Kompanikova
• Traduttore: Janet Livingstone
• Editore: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Collana: The Slovak List
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 212 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9780857428899

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