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Magical realism in a Polish village in the first half of the twentieth century
#Poland #NobelPrize

After reading this book I can tell that Tokarczuk deserved winning the Nobel Prize - she has a special way of telling her story and I especially enjoyed the Magical Realism and how she used it.

A translation of a new novel by my favorite author will finally be published soon! So excited for my friends all over the world to get a chance to experience it :) "Jacob's Scriptures" is a masterpiece.

If you're in London in March, make sure to attend this event:

http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/2017/3/olga-tokarczuk-and-deborah-l...

In the meantime, enjoy her debut novel "Primeval and other times".

I enjoyed this book, but it's not one of my favorites so far this year. I like how the passage of time is felt as such an absolute inevitability and how the most mundane of events as well as horrible events (wars, occupations) just have to come and pass. Everything's a parenthesis in time.

110 pages in and I still don't see what is supposed to be so great about this book.

Are coffee grinders more important than people? I believe so, yes.