Swallowing Mercury

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  • Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike) Nominee (2015)
  • Nagroda Literacka Gdynia (Gdynia Literary Prize) Nominee for Prose (2015)
  • Prix Jan Michalski Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Nominee (2017)
  • TA First Translation Prize Nominee for Eliza Marciniak (2018)
  • International Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Swallowing Mercury

Regular price $12.66
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ISBN: 9781846276071
Publisher: Portobello Books
Date of Publication: 2017-01-05
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 1999 readers)

Description

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time.Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's. From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination.
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