epub | 16.47 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B00BAH8N10 | Author: Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth, Mark Thompson, Dubravka Ugresic | Year: 2011

"Multilayered narratives come together as an exploration of femininity, identity, mortality, and folklore's wondrous powers." -Booklist According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother's final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who's given up on love, and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women's fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a...