Baba Yaga Laid an Egg -

Dubravka Ugrešić,Dubravka Ugresic

Canongate Books Ltd

2009

327 páginas

10h 54m

ISBN-13: 9781847670663

"Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology."

"But what does she have to do with a writer's journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on behalf of her mother?"

"Or with a trio of women who decide in their old age to spend a week together at a hotel spa?"

By the end of Dubravka Ugresic's novel, the answers are revealed. Her story is shot through with spellbinding, magic, involving a gambling triumph, sudden death on the golf course, a long-lost grandchild, an invasion of starlings, and wartime flight, the consequences of which are revealed only decades later.

Resenhas (1)

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Abandonei no final.
Gostei muito das duas primeiras partes, mas a terceira parte parecia mais um verbete de enciclopédia sobre a Baba Yaga. Acho que se o livro se reduzisse às partes ficcionais, teria sido mais instigante, até para uma pesquisa posterior sobre a Baba Yaga que não fosse dada diretamente no livro. Acho que a literatura não precisa explicar a si mesma.