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All this belongs to me : a novel / Petra Hůlová ; translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.

Title: All this belongs to me : a novel / Petra Hůlová ; translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.
Author: Hůlová, Petra, 1979-
Publication: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2009.

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Zucker, Alex

Description

195 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Alta, Zaya, Nara, Oyuna and Dolgorna - a mother, three sisters, and the teenage daughter of one of the sisters - each tell their pieces of the family story, an epic fraught with secrets and betrayals, in All This Belongs to Me, the debut novel of Petra Hulova." "All This Belongs to Me transports the reader from Mongolia's harsh, dusty steppe to the clamor and grime of the capital, Ulaanbantar; from nomanic herding and felt tents to brothels and prefab apartment blocks. With a filmic eye and a dead-on ear, Hulova vividly conveys the landscapes and lives of three generations of women. Two of the sisters, born illegitimately of their mother's clandestine affairs with foreigners - one Chinese, one Russian - struggle with the stigma of being half-breeds, while the strict division of male and female labor and social roles plays out in the city and country alike, with devastating consequences."--BOOK JACKET.
Chronicles the lives of three generations of women in a Mongolian family. Told from the point of view of a mother, three sisters, and the daughter of one of the sisters, this story of secrets and betrayals takes us from the daily rhythms of nomadic life on the steppe to the harsh realities of urban alcoholism and prostitution in the capital.

Series Statement

Writings from an unbound Europe

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Alternative Title

Pamět̕ mojí babičce.

Subject

Women > Mongolia > Fiction

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^^2009023496

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