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The
2004 Award
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House
of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past. Here, at the heart of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary lives are not as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area, she soon discovers that the locals all have their secrets. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic elderly neighbour, she gathers their stories, moving back and forth in time and between truth and myth, disentangling the events of their days from the dreams of their nights. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962. Her most recent publication in Polish is her second volume of short stories, Playing on Many Drums. She lives and works in the countryside near Nowa Ruda, southwestern Poland. |
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