Lit in Translation

The Bonnet

Čepiec

Katarína Kucbelová (born 1979)

Translated by Julia Sherwood, Peter Sherwood

English editions

In English

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Over two years a woman keeps returning to a dwindling mountain village beneath Kráľova hoľa to learn to sew the bonnet worn with the local women's costume. She takes no photographs or recordings; she listens, embroiders and writes. With her teacher she pieces together scraps of the past and details of the present on the village edge, next to a Roma settlement, and faces the stereotypes she herself lives in.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
180 pages in the original
Genres
Autofiction (assigned by AI)
Set in
Slovakia
First published
2019 by Slovart
Author's age
40 when first published
ISBN

9788055642031 (original)

9781803093529 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)