Author(s): Skarynkina, Tania, Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 01/08/2018, Pagination: 262 pages, Series: N/A, Imprint: Scotland Street Press, Published By: Scotland Street Press, Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 24 ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781910895221
Sitting by her window with a glass of cranberries in sugar syrup bought from a woman in the market who assured her they came from Karelia, she muses “Perhaps they have some other kind of effect when you eat them. Spiritual maybe? So I eat and wait for the Karelian cranberries to work their magic on me.” Skarynkina is impelled to spend the last of her money on a trip to Krakow to meet Czeslaw Milosz but never finds his address, so he remains to her an idol like Elvis Presley dressed in gold lame. Each story has a charm and imaginative flight of its own.
