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Małgorzata Lebda

 
9781068740404: Voracious

Synopsis

Lyrical and haunting, a novel about illness, love, sadness and joy which will appeal to anyone who has ever loved or lost someone.

Voracious follows a year in the life of a young woman caring for her dying grandmother in the company of her grandfather, her friend, and animals. The novel is set in a small village which echoes with noises from the nearby abattoir and which is threatened by a landslide. The grandfather is renovating a room for his wife while the women care for one another, for the plants, and for the animals. Małgorzata Lebda guides us through the countryside, the changing seasons, wildlife, illness, death, and love. Everything is at once fragile and full of life, animate and inanimate. Full of profound emotional truths, this book signals the arrival of a new.

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À propos de l'auteur

Małgorzata Lebda is well-known as a poet, with eight collections to her name. Among other major accolades, she won the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Award in 2022. Voracious, the winner of Empik’s Best Newcomer in Poland and nominated for Angelus Prize, and NIKE Award, is her debut novel. Malgorzata Lebda is also a photographer and marathon runner - she covered a distance of 1113 kilometres along the Vistula River as part of her activist/poetry project Reading Water

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