Kinderland Liliana Corobca Monica Cure Translation by Liliana Corobca, Monica Cure (translation) 9781644213285, 9781644213278, 1644213281, 1644213273 instant download after payment.

"Corobca's novel not only reports with tenderness & wit on the pain & patience of abandoned children, it also traces the economic, social & moral decay of the rural milieu with wide awake realism." — Andreas Breitenstein, New Zurich 

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With her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we experience the feeling of wonderment & loneliness as they roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village. Her mother has gone to Italy, her father to Siberia, & the children grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, & chasing their fading memories of normal family life. Kinderland is the second novel by Moldovan novelist Liliana Corobca to be translated into English. 

The first was The Censor’s Notebook (2022), which won the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2023, remarkably so since it was also the translator, Monica Cure’s, first attempt at a book-length translation. Kinderland showcases Corobca's signature ability to present grimness in a way that is also so full of life & a love of people, & a kind of curiosity that's gentle & forgiving of people's strangeness.

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LILIANA COROBCA was born in the Republic of Moldova. She made her debut with the novel Negrissimo (2003), winner of the ‘Prometheus’ Prize for debut awarded by the România literară magazine; the Prize for Prose Debut of the Republic of Moldova Writers’ Union & The Character in Inter‑war Romanian Novels (2003, translated into Italian & German). She is also the author of the novels A Year in Paradise (2005), Kinderland (2013, translated into German & Slovenian),...