Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Baba Yaga, the witch of Slavic folklore whose hut stands on chicken legs and who is used to frighten children, is retold here in three parts that move between autobiography, fiction and a mock-scholarly study. The book follows four women in today's Eastern Europe: a writer who travels to her dying mother's home town in Bulgaria to grant her last wish; an old woman who hopes each morning that the day will be her last; a well-endowed blonde who works in a hospital and no longer expects love; and a woman who keeps outliving her husbands and secretly writes. Behind their fears, desires and struggle not to become invisible lies a modern myth: that every woman who does not invest enough in cosmetics, fitness and plastic surgery turns into a witch.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

312 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Vuković & Runjić

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789532860108 (original)

9781847670663 (Canongate, United Kingdom)

9780802145208 (Grove Press, United States)