Snow White and Russian Red
by Dorota Maslowska | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0802170013 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0802170013 Global Overview for this book
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From the front cover:
''She is the hope of Polish literature.'
-Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
'Chaotic and brilliantly idiosyncratic ... This thoroughly unique debut is destined to become a cult classic.'
-Library Journal (starred review)'
From the back cover:
''A comet in the sky of literary Poland.' -Le Monde
A searing, audacious and darkly comic novel from a new literary voice of international importance, Snow White and Russian Red is a fresh and surprising portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth. It is the story of Andrzej 'Nails' Robakoski and his unraveling after his girlfriend Magda dumps him. A tracksuited slacker, Nails spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next girl, next line of speed, next proof for his conspiracy theories about the Polish economy. A xenophobic campaign against the proliferating Russian black market escalates, culminating in No Russkies Day - or is that just in Nails's fevered mind? By turns poetic, hilarious, disturbing, and dirty, Snow White and Russian Red is a powerful portrait of love, hopelessness, and political burnout in today's Eastern Europe.
Praise for SNOW WHITE AND RUSSIAN RED
'Fast, heavily abbreviated, full of color, bursting with idiosyncrasy ... Similarities are immediately apparent to the films Being John Malkovich and Trainspotting, but also to Kafka, Gombrowicz, and Gaddis.'
-Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Germany)
'A melange of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Burroughs's Naked Lunch and Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz.' -Buchreport (Germany)
'This very young woman has in her an unheard-of literary maturity ... [Her] completely lost generation is in luck because it has produced an author who will redeem it.' -Jerzy Pilch, Polityka (Poland)
Born in 1983, Dorota Maslowska is the recipient of the prestigious Polityka Prize. Her first novel, Snow White and Russian Red has been sold in eleven languages. She lives in Warsaw.'
This is a trade paperback edition from Black Cat, published in 2005. The book was originally published in Polish in 2002.
I bought this book in The American Bookstore in Arkadia mall in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, March 16th, 2009. It cost ... 29 zlotys, I think.. :-)
''She is the hope of Polish literature.'
-Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
'Chaotic and brilliantly idiosyncratic ... This thoroughly unique debut is destined to become a cult classic.'
-Library Journal (starred review)'
From the back cover:
''A comet in the sky of literary Poland.' -Le Monde
A searing, audacious and darkly comic novel from a new literary voice of international importance, Snow White and Russian Red is a fresh and surprising portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth. It is the story of Andrzej 'Nails' Robakoski and his unraveling after his girlfriend Magda dumps him. A tracksuited slacker, Nails spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next girl, next line of speed, next proof for his conspiracy theories about the Polish economy. A xenophobic campaign against the proliferating Russian black market escalates, culminating in No Russkies Day - or is that just in Nails's fevered mind? By turns poetic, hilarious, disturbing, and dirty, Snow White and Russian Red is a powerful portrait of love, hopelessness, and political burnout in today's Eastern Europe.
Praise for SNOW WHITE AND RUSSIAN RED
'Fast, heavily abbreviated, full of color, bursting with idiosyncrasy ... Similarities are immediately apparent to the films Being John Malkovich and Trainspotting, but also to Kafka, Gombrowicz, and Gaddis.'
-Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Germany)
'A melange of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Burroughs's Naked Lunch and Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz.' -Buchreport (Germany)
'This very young woman has in her an unheard-of literary maturity ... [Her] completely lost generation is in luck because it has produced an author who will redeem it.' -Jerzy Pilch, Polityka (Poland)
Born in 1983, Dorota Maslowska is the recipient of the prestigious Polityka Prize. Her first novel, Snow White and Russian Red has been sold in eleven languages. She lives in Warsaw.'
This is a trade paperback edition from Black Cat, published in 2005. The book was originally published in Polish in 2002.
I bought this book in The American Bookstore in Arkadia mall in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, March 16th, 2009. It cost ... 29 zlotys, I think.. :-)
