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- House of Day, House of Night : A Novel. by Tokarczuk, Olga.;
When the narrator of 'House of Day, House of Night' arrives in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, though, she discovers that everyone there has a story. With the help of her neighbour, she pieces together the fragments of the living and the dead. Shard by shard, from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these stories capture not only a history but a cosmology. Please note: Libraries should check their holdings for the academic press edition (ISBN 9780810118928).Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Magical Realism; FICTION / Short Stories (single author);
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- The empusium : a health resort horror story / by Tokarczuk, Olga,1962-author.; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,translator.; translation of:Tokarczuk, Olga,1962-Empuzjon.English.;
"The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Sanatoriums; Tuberculosis;
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- The empusium [text (large print)] : a health resort horror story / by Tokarczuk, Olga,1962-author.; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,translator.; translation of:Tokarczuk, Olga,1962-Empuzjon.English.;
"The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Sanatoriums; Tuberculosis;
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- Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / by Tokarczuk, Olga,1962-author.; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,translator.; translation of:Tokarczuk, Olga,1962-Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych.English.;
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Recluses; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Murder;
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- Big Girls Don't Cry A Memoir About Taking Up Space [electronic resource] : by Swan, Susan.aut; Atwood, Margaret.; CloudLibrary;
“[Swan’s writing offers] not only an enjoyable read, but also the chance to think and reflect on the vast complex living entity that is the world." —Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk Where do we belong if we don’t fit in? A memoir about what it means to defy expectations as a woman, a mother and an artist, for readers of Joan Didion and Gloria Steinem and listeners of the podcast Wiser than Me Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her—the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences. In this revealing and revelatory memoir, Swan shares the key moments of her life. As a child in a small Ontario town, she was defined by her size—attracting ridicule because she was six-foot-two by the age of twelve. She left her marriage to be a single mother and a fiction writer in the edgy, underground art scene of 1970s Toronto. In her forties, she embraced the new freedom of the Aphrodite years. Despite the costs to her relationships, Swan kept searching for the place she fit, living in the literary circles of New York while seeking pleasure and spiritual wisdom in Greece, and culminating in the hard-won experience of true self-acceptance in her seventies. Swan examines the expectations of women of her generation and beyond using the lens of her then-unusual height as a metaphor for the way women are expected not to take up space in the world. Inspiring and thought-provoking, Big Girls Don’t Cry invites us to re-examine what we’ve been taught to believe about ourselves and ask how it could be different.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Personal Memoirs; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Women;
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