Title: Why the child is cooking in the polenta /
Authors: Veteranyi, Aglaja, 1962-2002; Kling, Vincent, 1942-
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Circus performers Fiction; Romanies Fiction
Abstract: A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's 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.