Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again (Lithuanian Literature) by Giedra Radvilaviciute, Elizabeth Novickas (trans.) (.ePUB)
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Overview: In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilaviciute travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had "shot and buried with the proper honors," the reader finds a dense, subtly interwoven structure of memory and reality, banalities and fantasy, all served up with a good dollop of absurdity and humor. We travel from the old town of Vilnius to Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, from the seaside to a local delicatessen, all in a narrative collage as exquisitely detailed as a bouquet of flowers. As in all of her work, Radvilaviciute plays with the genres of fiction and nonfiction, essay and short story, in which the experiences of life "are unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake." (Dalkey Archive)
Once you get over the first paragraph the rest of the book is a delight to read. Full of insight about people and places. About the past and the present, about friends and relationships, about the ability to be alone and together with others. About being oneself. It’s a book about living in one’s homeland and abroad. Author has an extremely creative imagination to spin a story beyond "mundane" everyday events into the almost supernatural realm. The translation reads so well that one forgets that it was not written in the English language.
Genre: General Fiction/Literature
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