- Anglický jazyk
Boat Number Five
Autor: Monika Kompanikova
The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature, promiscuous mother and made to care for her cantankerous dying grandmother, twelve-year-old Jarka is left to... Viac o knihe
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The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature, promiscuous mother and made to care for her cantankerous dying grandmother, twelve-year-old Jarka is left to fend for herself in the social vacuum of a post-communist concrete apartment-block jungle in Bratislava, Slovakia. She spends her days roaming the streets and daydreaming in the only place she feels safe: a small garden inherited from her grandfather.
One day, on her way to the garden, she stops at a suburban railway station and impulsively abducts twin babies. Jarka teeters on the edge of disaster, and while struggling to care for the babies, she discovers herself. With a vivid and unapologetic eye, Monika Kompanikova captures the universal quest for genuine human relationships amid the emptiness and ache of post-communist Europe.
Boat Number Five, which was adapted into an award-winning Slovak film, is the first of two books that launch Seagull's much-anticipated Slovak List.
- Vydavateľstvo: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Rok vydania: 2022
- Formát: Hardback
- Rozmer: 236 x 160 x 24 (mm) 212 pages
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780857428899