Swallowing mercury
By: Wioletta Greg ; translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak
Contributors: Marciniak, Eliza, translator
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781945492044
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Guguły
Description: While political change hums in the background, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit agricultural community in 1980s Poland: the superstitions of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker's house.
Notes: "This book was originally published in Polish as Gugły in 2014 by Wydawnictwo Czarne"--Title page verso.

Translated from the Polish.

Man Booker International Prize (UK) : Longlist, 2017.
Table of contents: title: The fairground girl; title: The Jesus raffle; title: Little table, set thyself!; title: Waiting for the popemobile; title: The little paint girl; title: A picture pays a visit; title: Whitsunday; title: An Easter pasha; title: Spiders from Jerusalem; title: Waves; title: Gienek the combine driver; title: Pierced lids; title: The dressmaker's secret; title: Strawberry; title: The woman with a dog; title: Sour cherries; title: The phillumenist; title: Dolce vita; title: Masters of scrap; title: The return of Zorro; title: The belated feeding of bees; title: Unripe; title: Neon over the Jupiter.