![]() ![]() ![]() Enigmatic, and always feeling the cold, she generally keeps her peace, coming out with the odd telling comment.Īs the book develops, these domestic pieces become just one aspect to the novel, interspersed between other fragments of differing length, many introducing new stories. We also get to meet Marta, their elderly neighbour, who is to be one of the book’s more prominent characters. ![]() The book begins with a woman and her husband, R., moving into an old house near the village of Nowa Ruda, or Neurode, and the first section introduces us to their new home, with its expansive gardens, or fields, and the water running inconveniently underneath. Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) takes us to southern Poland, in what was previously German territory, close to the Czech border. My latest choice is an old book, but, as you’ll see, one with strong links to the works the writer is best known for in the English-speaking world – and, more importantly, it’s also a great book in its own right □ Of course, a common consequence of these prizes is to get people scrambling to read the writers, and their back catalogue, and that’s also the case today. It’s probably fair to say that one of the laureates wasn’t the most popular of choices, but the other selection met with much wider agreement. Nobel Prize time is always interesting, and this year it was even more so, what with the double award in literature. ![]()
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