Dieses Buch kommt aus der überfüllten BücherboXX VillaLibris. Vielen Dank für die Spende. Es wird für die Winter-Release-Challenge 2018/19 registriert. Es darf im passenden Themenrelease weiterreisen.

This book comes from the overcrowded BücherboXX VillaLibris. Thank you very much for the donation. It will be registered for the Winter Release Challenge 2018/19. It may continue to travel in the appropriate theme release.

To the book :: Publishing information
Kseniya Melnik's Snow in May introduces a cast of characters bound by their relationship to the port town of Magadan in Russia's Far East, a former gateway for prisoners assigned to Stalin’s forced-labor camps. Comprised of a surprising mix of newly minted professionals, ex-prisoners, intellectuals, musicians, and faithful Party workers, the community is vibrant and resilient and life in Magadan thrives even under the cover of near-perpetual snow. By blending history and fable, each of Melnik's stories transports us somewhere completely new: a married Magadan woman considers a proposition from an Italian footballer in '70s Moscow; an ailing young girl visits a witch doctor’s house where nothing is as it seems; a middle-aged dance teacher is entranced by a new student’s raw talent; a former Soviet boss tells his granddaughter the story of a thorny friendship; and a woman in 1958 jumps into a marriage with an army officer far too soon.

About the author :: Publishing information
Kseniya Melnik's debut book is the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. It was published in the US and UK in 2014 and will come out in Japan in translation in 2017. Born in Magadan, Russia, Kseniya moved to Alaska in 1998, at the age of 15. She received her MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Epoch, Esquire (Russia), Granta (Finland), O, Oprah Magazine, Tin House,Virginia Quarterly Review, Prospect (UK), and was selected for Granta's New Voices series. She was a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014 and at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland in 2016, and served as the 2015-2016 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Dieses Buch geht nun auf Reisen ... to whom it may concern. Viel Freude damit!

Winterchallenge-Buch

In Memoriam Patschouli (11.11.1922-25.5.2018) Dieses Buch wurde freigelassen, um mit den Menschen die Begeisterung an Bookcrossing zu teilen. Schön, dass Sie es mitgenommen und hier einen Eintrag gemacht haben, denn es ist für Bookcrosser:innen immer sehr schön zu erfahren, wo ein Buch nun hin gekommen ist und wie es dem Finder gefällt. Und genau darum geht es bei Bookcrossing: Bücher auf Reisen zu schicken - gerade auch zu Stellen, an denen nicht damit gerechnet wird - und Leseerfahrungen zu teilen.

Schauen Sie doch auch mal ins deutsche Bookcrossing-Forum, in den Begrüßungsfaden für Neulinge oder auf die Hilfeseite. Im Forum werden übrigens auch die monatlichen Treffen angekündigt, bei denen uns neue Bookcrosser:innen immer herzlich wilkommen sind.

Ein Video der Nachrichtenagentur AFP erklärt eigentlich recht gut, worum es bei Bookcrossing geht.