Raised in a household of monsters - human and make-believe, during the 1980s on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, the narrator takes refuge in the pages of books. This darkly humorous yet poignant account chronicles the journey of a resilient young woman battling to write her own story, in a community struggling with its colonial past.
Probing modern meditation on memory and identity through the prism of a contemporary female narrator's obsession with Viacheslav Lypnskyi (1882-1931), an activist in Ukraine's struggle for independence and statehood.
A lyrical novella that wears lightly its themes of trauma and loss of maternal language. Winner of European Prize for Literature 2012, from acclaimed Austrian writer Carolina Schutti.
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