Smak swiezych malin
By: Izabela Sowa.
Publisher: Proszynski i s-ka
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Warszawa
Language: pol
Number of pages: 188
Description: "Smak swieʺzych malin' is one of the volumes in the so-called "fruit trilogy" of Isabella Sowa, portraying the life of teenagers, people in their twenties, and people in their thirties in that beautiful country of Central Europe, which gives to attractive sirens so many possibilities, gifted by Nature, [and also] the experience of a rubber willpower, a rhinoceros's skin as well as elbows of hardened steel [that is, they're both stiff and flexible simultaneously]. As the author herself talks about the main character: "Malina is not the next native imitation of Bridget Jones or Ally McBeal, just like "Pomyslowy Dobromir" is not the Polish animated version of McGyver, nor Jakub Burski a Slavic doctor Queen, nor the Wawel dragon the Krakow version of Godzilla. Malina is simply a raspberry, not a Polish version of a kiwi fruit." And this is our heroine exactly, with her fears, dreams, and visions of the world shaped here exactly: in the land of bigos (hashed meat and cabbage dish), sour soup and salmonella."--Translated from p. [4] of cover.