num_pages: 327
description: 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 women who decide in their old age to spend a week together at a hotel spa?By the end of Dubravka Ugresic's novel the answers are revealed. Her story is shot through with spellbinding magic involving a gambling triumph sudden death on the golf course a long-lost grandchild an invasion of starlings and wartime flight the consequences of which are revealed only decades later.
language: English
title: Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd