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From the author of the award-winning The Censor's Notebook, a novelabout childrenwhoseparents have departed for employment in foreign lands, told through the perspective of a young girlwho is responsiblefor her two brothers. "Corobca's novel not only reports with tenderness and wit on the pain and patience of abandoned children, it also traces the economic, social and moral decay of the rural milieu with wide awake realism."-Andreas Breitenstein, New Zurich With her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we experience the feeling of wonderment and loneliness as they roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village. Her mother has gone to Italy, her father to Siberia, and the children grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, and chasing their fading memories of normal family life. Kinderland is the second novel by Moldovan novelist Liliana Corobca to be translated into English. The first was The Censor's Notebook (2022), which won the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2023, remarkably so since it was also the translator, Monica Cure's, first attempt at a book-length translation. Kinderland showcases Corobca'ssignature ability to present grimness in a way that is also so full of life and a love of people, and a kind of curiositythat's gentle and forgiving of people's strangeness. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)859.335Literature Italian and related languages Romanian literature and Rhaeto-Romanic literature, Corsican, Sardinian Romanian fiction 1900–RatingAverage:
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In diesem ›Land ohne Eltern‹ spielt auch Der erste Horizont meinens Lebens, ein feiner, kleiner Roman der aus Moldawien stammenden und mittlerweile in Rumänien lebenden Autorin Liliana Corobca. Protagonistin ist die zwölfjährige Christina, die als Haushaltsvorstand ihre beiden jüngeren Brüder und den kleinen, ärmlichen Hof hüten muß. Zwischen ständiger Überforderung und trotziger Selbstbehauptung oszilliert das Seelenleben dieses Mädchens, dem die Autorin eine authentische, literarische Stimme verleiht, die für die alltäglichen kleinen und großen Katastrophen des dörflichen Lebens ebenso wie für die schmerzhafte Sehnsucht der Geschwister nach ihren Eltern die richtige Tonlage findet: traurig und heiter zugleich, und weit entfernt von jeglicher Sentimentalität.- ( )