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Boat Number Five

Monika Kompankov

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  • 212 sidor
  • 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 Kompankov 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 Seagulls much-anticipated Slovak List.
  • Författare: Monika Kompankov
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780857428899
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 212
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-01-28
  • Översättare: Janet Livingstone
  • Förlag: Seagull Books London Ltd