Swallowing Mercury

Set in rural south Poland in the 1980s, this novella follows a young girl's passage into adulthood in her village, where fables and folklore mingle with Catholicism.

About the author

WIOLETTA GREG is the author of six volumes of poetry and a novella, Swallowing Mercury, translated here into English for the first time. Her poetry collection, Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance, was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Essex.

ELIZA MARCINIAK is an editor and translator. She lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Wioletta Greg
• Assisted by: Eliza Marciniak (Translation)
• Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2017
• EAN: 9781846276071
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-607-1
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 205 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Polen, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Literary, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Polen / Roman, Erzählung