A Large Czeslaw Milosz With a Dash of Elvis Presley

by Tania Skarynkina

Overview

Sitting by her window with a glass of cranberries in sugar syrup bought from a woman in the market who assured her they came from Karelia, she muses “Perhaps they have some other kind of effect when you eat them. Spiritual maybe? So I eat and wait for the Karelian cranberries to work their magic on me.” Skarynkina is impelled to spend the last of her money on a trip to Krakow to meet Czeslaw Milosz but never finds his address, so he remains to her an idol like Elvis Presley dressed in gold lame. Each story has a charm and imaginative flight of its own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910895221
Publisher:	Scotland Street Press
Publication date:	01/08/2018
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tania Skarynkina was born in 1969 in Smarhon, Belarus. She worked as a postwoman, journalist, and illustrator. She writes poetry in Russian and essays in Belarusian. Her works have been translated into English, Polish, Czech and Hebrew. Her collection of stories, A Large Czeslaw Milosz with a Dash of Elvis Presley, which was awarded the English PEN Award in 2018.