Bellevue
Ivana Dobrakovova author Peter Sherwood translator Julia Sherwood translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jantar Publishing Ltd
Published:22nd Oct '19
Should be back in stock very soon
Raising The Velvet Curtain UK promotional tour in October 2019 Manchester 22 October, Blackells Bookshop; Oxford 23 October, St. Antony's College; Cambridge 24 October, Heffers Bookshop London, 25 October, British Library
Blanka takes a summer job at a centre for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly.Blanka takes a summer job at a centre for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly. A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unravelling, evolving from carer to cared for. A novel about our own inability to escape ‘our own private cages’, imprisoned by fear, anxiety and mistrust, no less than indifference to others. The author: IVANA DOBRAKOVOVÁ (1982) graduated from Bratislava's Comenius University with a degree in English and French (translation and interpretation). She is based in Turin where she works as a freelance translator from French and Italian into Slovak, currently working on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels. She debuted in 2009 with her short story collection Prvá smrť v rodine (The First Death in the Family), followed by the novel Bellevue (2010). Her most recent collection of short stories Toxo appeared in 2013. She has won several literary competitions, including Poviedka 2008, and all three of her books have been shortlisted for the Anasoft Litera prize. In 2019, she was awarded the EU Prize for Literature.
- Winner of EU Literature Prize 2019
ISBN: 9780993446771
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220 pages