Why the child is cooking in the polenta
By: Aglaja Veteranyi ; translated and with an afterword by Vincent Kling
Contributors: Kling, Vincent, 1942-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781564786869
Work titles: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
Description: 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.