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Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta

Kling, Vincent more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 17/01/2012
Place of Publication: United States

RRP: $24.95
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A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mothers death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly artless narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.