While political change hums in the background, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit agricultural community in 1980s Poland: the superstitions of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker's house.
Wioletta Greg ; translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak.
Man Booker International Prize (UK) : Longlist, 2017.
Translated from the Polish.