Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth, Mark Thompson

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"Multilayered narratives come together as an exploration of femininity, identity, mortality, & folklore's wondrous powers." —Booklist

According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs & kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend & spins it into a fresh & distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, & love.

With barbed wisdom & razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother's final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who's given up on love, & a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women's fears & desires, & their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a...

Dubravka Ugresic is a writer of novels (Baba Yaga Laid An Egg, The Ministry of Pain), short story collections (Lend Me Your Character, In the Jaws of Life) & books of essays (Nobody’s Home, Thank You for Not Reading, The Culture of Lies). Born in the former Yugoslavia, Ugresic took a firm anti-nationalistic stand when war broke out in 1991, & she was proclaimed a “traitor,” a “public enemy,” & a “witch,” & was exposed to harsh & persistent media harassent. As a result, she left Croatia in 1993 & currently lives in Amsterdam.