All This Belongs to Me - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor PETRA HULOVÁ was born in Prague in 1979 and has published five critically acclaimed novels in Czech. She won the Magnesia Litera Prize in the Czech Republic in 2002 for Pamet mojí babicce ("A Memoir for My Grandmother, " here released as All This Belongs to Me ). ALEX ZUCKER has translated two novels, numerous short stories and plays, poems, and song lyrics. His translation of Czech author Jáchym Topol's first novel, City Sister Silver (2000), was selected for inclusion in the 2006 guide 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die . Zucker's most recent translation was a comic opera directed by Milos Forman for the National Theater in Prague. He lives in Brooklyn. Klappentext Chronicles the lives of three generations of women in a Mongolian family. Told from the point of view of a mother, three sisters, and the daughter of one of the sisters, this story of secrets and betrayals takes us from the daily rhythms of nomadic life on the steppe to the harsh realities of urban alcoholism and prostitution in the capital. Zusammenfassung Chronicles the lives of three generations of women in a Mongolian family. Told from the point of view of a mother! three sisters! and the daughter of one of the sisters! this story of secrets and betrayals takes us from the daily rhythms of nomadic life on the steppe to the harsh realities of urban alcoholism and prostitution in the capital.

Product details

• Authors: Petra Hulov, Petra Hulova, Petra/ Zucker Hulova, Petra Hulová
• Assisted by: Alex Zucker (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780810124431
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2443-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe S.; Writings from an Unbound Europe; Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature