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The 2011 Award

 

Petric

They All Ate Sushi

by Eva Petric

 

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Knjižnica Otona Župancica, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Didakta, Slovenia

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

 
Eva Petric’s composite love novel: They All Ate Sushi has the anatomy of a sushi, being both literarily and metaphorically composed of various ingredients. Just as the ingredients of a sushi are rolled up, the main heroes of this novel are also rolled up in their own separate love stories. When unrolled they form an even bigger final sushi- one three-layered story with a wrapper: that of Sara and Juan Cruz, Jan  and Lovro, Diana and Juan, with Laura and the anonymous man wrapping them all up. Despite the three sushi’s having different ingredients- these are expressed in the novel as differing circumstances of the heroes- the end taste offered is the same. All are cursed by one and the same – an expiration date.

 
(From Publisher).


 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eva Petric was born in 1983 in Kranj, Slovenia, and graduated in 2005 in Psychology and the Visual Arts in Vienna. She devotes her time to writing, photography, video and performance art. She grew up in different regions of the world in linguistically, culturally and geographically very different environments from Africa Asia, to North America and Central Europe, and received her formal education at eight different schools in six different countries on three different continents. She currently resides in Vienna where she is the artist in residence of the gallery Suppan.


LIBRARIAN'S COMMENTS

An excellent novel.

 

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