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Dubravka Ugresic
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Celia Hawkesworth, and Mark Thompson (from Croatian)
Originally 2007, I read 2009
327 pages, folklore, post-modern
This post-modern take on the folklore character of Baba Yaga contains three sections that may or may not be connected to each other:
A tale of an author's* relationship with her cleanliness-obsessed, dementia afflicted mother. At her mother's urging, the author undertakes a trip to their hometown with a recent-Ph.D. in folklore.
The author's* novella about three elderly female friends who travel abroad to a health spa.
A folklore scholar's description of the Baba Yaga stories and remarks about how the first two sections (presented as a book manuscript from an editor) relate to those folktales.
*"The author" here refers to the character in the novel. I will specify Ugresic by name to avoid confusion.
Read a sample or buy from Amazon:
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
