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Anna In w grobowcach świata

Anna In w grobowcach świata

FantasyLiterary Fiction
Pages
119
Published
2006
Language
Polish

Synopsis

Olga Tokarczuk reimagines the nearly four-thousand-year-old Sumerian myth of Inanna's descent into the underworld as a futuristic, cybermythical fable. The goddess Anna In leaves her earthly kingdom to confront her sister Ereszkigal, ruler of the land of the dead, and is stripped at each gate of everything that marked her power, until she stands humiliated before her rival — a novel of surrender, rebirth, and negotiated resurrection set among shafts, refuse heaps and skyscrapers.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MysteriousThought-ProvokingMelancholic

Genres

Fantasy Literary Fiction Mythology

About the author

O
Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (ur. 29 stycznia 1962 w Sulechowie) – polska pisarka, eseistka, poetka i autorka scenariuszy, psycholożka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za rok 2018, laureatka The Man Booker International Prize 2018 za powieść Bieguni oraz dwukrotna laureatka Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” za powieści: Bieguni (2008) i Księgi Jakubowe (2015). ---------- Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellect...