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5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant Polish magical realism,
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This review is from: Primeval and Other Times (Paperback)
This is an extraordinary book and should be widely read. It is the story of a Polish village, Primeval, over the course of the 20th century. The writing is electrifying and is able to convincingly portray the state of mind of Polish peasants, Nazi and Russian soldiers, and Communists, as well as an icon, the secret world of the mushroom spawn, a ghost, a mystical game of chance, and a vain and flighty God.
The stories of human couples are intertwined with the natural and spiritual world in a series of short chapters that form a mosaic of human and non-human experience. The writing is so powerful that the reader is not so much reading as being. The plot is less important than the place, which is numinous. This reader did feel that she was indeed in the presence of something primeval. |
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Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk (Paperback - April 15, 2010)
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