Without Waking Up

Sifting through memories, simple scenes nestled into one another like her own beloved wooden doll, the Matryoshka, Maja struggles to unearth her identity. She is marked by a lingering absence – of homeland, mother tongue, mother, warmth. Raised in an unfamiliar country by her taciturn aunt, Maja has brief moments of connection with her fading past such as through her childhood friendship with Marek, a Polish refugee with his own stories of love and loss in the face of war and displacement. An adult Maja finds herself again and again on the outside of her relationships with others, and with herself. This poetic, yet unadorned, account invites an open-ended exploration of the... alles anzeigen expand_more

Sifting through memories, simple scenes nestled into one another like her own beloved wooden doll, the Matryoshka, Maja struggles to unearth her identity. She is marked by a lingering absence – of homeland, mother tongue, mother, warmth.

Raised in an unfamiliar country by her taciturn aunt, Maja has brief moments of connection with her fading past such as through her childhood friendship with Marek, a Polish refugee with his own stories of love and loss in the face of war and displacement. An adult Maja finds herself again and again on the outside of her relationships with others, and with herself. This poetic, yet unadorned, account invites an open-ended exploration of the relationship between language and identity.

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  • Artikelnummer SW9781739842338110164
  • Autor find_in_page Carolina Schutti
  • Mit find_in_page Deirdre McMahon
  • Autoreninformationen Carolina Schutti is an acclaimed Austrian author who lives in… open_in_new Mehr erfahren
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  • Verlag find_in_page Bullaun Press
  • Seitenzahl 136
  • Veröffentlichung 05.10.2023
  • ISBN 9781739842338

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