Lit in Translation

Gra na wielu bębenkach

“Playing on Many Drums” (title translated by AI)

Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962)

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The author's first big collection of short prose brings together everything familiar from her novels: brevity and a fairy-tale air, precise detail and poetry, lightness and weight. Behind the curtain of the everyday, each story finds something that upsets the order of things and tears people out of routine. Running through them is the idea that the art of living is the art of finding joy in whatever we do, and that a short existence offers riches it would be a sin not to use.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
342 pages in the original
First published
2001 by Ruta
Author's age
39 when first published
ISBN

9788391286593 (original)

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