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- 212pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
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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 Kompaníková 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.
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Boat Number Five, Monika Kompaníková
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- Pubblicato
- 2022
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- Titolo
- Boat Number Five
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Monika Kompaníková
- Editore
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 2022
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 212
- ISBN10
- 0857428896
- ISBN13
- 9780857428899
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Narrativa contemporanea, Letteratura slovacca, Adattato in un film, Giardino, Navi, Desiderio, Rapimenti, Mare e oceani, Infanzia, Solitudine, Slovacchia, Narrazione, Adozione, Bratislava, Navi a vapore, Romanzi slovacchi
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2010
- Titolo originale
- Piata loď
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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 Kompaníková 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.