Whitehorn's windmill, or, The unusual events once upon a time in the land of Paudruvė
By: Kazys Boruta ; translated and with an afterword by Elizabeth Novickas.
Contributors: Novickas, Elizabeth.
Series: CEU Press classics
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789639776715
Subjects: Millers -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Mate selection -- Fiction; Lithuania -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Whitehorn's windmill; Unusual events once upon a time in the land of Paudruvė
Work titles: Baltaragio malūnas.
Description: "Most of Whitehorn's Windmill was written in 1942, during the German occupation. Written in a lyrical style that gives full rein to the oral folktale tradition Lithuania is famous for, it is by turns romantic, farcical, fantastic, and tragic. The sense of spirituality that permeates the work reflects Lithuania's pagan roots that were overlaid with an occasionally over-zealous Catholicism not so very long ago.<BR><BR>The novel is about Whitehorn the miller's efforts to find a match for his beautiful daughter, Jurga, against various calamities with and among suitors, neighbors, priests and other inhabitants of the village, and ultimately against the devil's spell"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: First published in Lithuanian as Baltaragio malūnas in 1945.